Dearest Jane...
My Father's Life and Letters
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
7 May 2015
Summary
As the eldest daughter of a prolific letter writer, Jane Torday received hundreds of letters from her father over the years. From irreverent advice and hilarious family anecdotes to moments of great poignancy, Roger Mortimer’s missives are a touching and witty portrait of his life and relationships over the years.
Dearest Jane begins with Roger’s time as a young army officer in Egypt, and then as a POW in the Second World War, where his sense of humour endured despite the con…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472121127 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472121120 |
| Author: | Roger Mortimer, Jane Torday |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Constable |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 7 May 2015 |
| Weight: | 348g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 28mm |
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Critics Review
Jane Torday and her father are perfect companions, and this is a life in letters as never before often hilarious, occasionally objectionable, ever engaging, original and always honest. This book is like an old-fashioned Fleet Street lunch, and you will rise from the table both light-headed and wonderfully indulged.
A tender, hilarious, perceptive and sometimes painfully honest account of a daughter’s love for her father, this latest addition to the Mortimer family correspondence comes from Dear Lupin’s ‘bossy elder sister’. Every family should have one.Jane Torday, though her book depends on the wit and wisdom of letters from her Dad, is a natural writer with a strong sense of narrative drive. As a portrait of a family mother Nidnod, father Roger, siblings Lupin and Lumpy, it is sharply observed as well as memorably affectionate. Above all, it is Roger Mortimer who is the star of the show. His final request: ‘I don t want a memorial service, just a quick fry up.’ Fabulous stuff.Readers will love [Jane Torday’s] book … Roger Mortimer was far too beautiful a writer for his best work to have stayed in a box. - The TimesAnother golden hoard of correspondence from that epistolary genius … Roger Mortimer. - TatlerOne of publishing’s least expected success stories. - SpectatorAbout The Author
Roger Mortimer
Jane Torday is a freelance writer specialising in gardening, food, social and oral history, and family memoir. She lives in Northumberland.
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