· Family Romance is a very narrowly-focused memoir of a very unusual family, but it's made me think a lot about families in general and my family in specific. The people are fascinating, and the language is lovely, and tracing the story of a lying ex-nun and a dreamer worker bee is great reading.5/5(2). · This is about British/Australian writer John Lancaster’s memoirs of his family. A major part of the book is about secrets of the family specially by his mother. Who had hidden about 8 yrs of her life to avoid rejection from her boyfriend (Jim, john’s father)/5. During her subsequent married life she carried a huge secret which effectively cut her off from her family in Ireland and even prevented her achieving her potential as a writer. The book is written by her son, the novelist John Lanchester, who writes with a depth of understanding and empathy for his troubled mother/5(58).
John Lanchester is the author of the novels The Debt to Pleasure, Mr. Phillips, and Fragrant Harbor; and a memoir, Family Romance. He is a contributing editor at the London Review of Books and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Observer, and The Daily Telegraph, among others. In his first memoir, novelist Lanchester investigates how his parents' life stories shaped him as a writer. Born in Hamburg, Germany, raised in Asia and educated in England, he is an only child of. "Family Romance seems almost to stand still amid the bustling traffic of contemporary memoirs."-John Perry, San Francisco Chronicle "Of the many books on the strange shelf of family histories, Family Romance is one of the best I've read, for its sleuthing and its subtlety, its revelation of family passions and oddities, and most of all, family secrets and multiple identities.
The book is written by her son, the novelist John Lanchester, who writes with a depth of understanding and empathy for his troubled mother. My own enjoyment of the book was enhanced by the fact that she was born and reared in a corner of the parish I was born in and many place names and family names are familiar to me. Family Romance: A Memoir by John Lanchester pp, Faber, £ The popularity of life-writing, or more specifically the confessional memoir, has been linked to the Oprah-ising or Jerry. John Lanchester describes Family Romance as a memoir, but I found it more of a biography of a family. Much of the information in this book was not things he remembered, but information that he had found through extensive research, particularly on his mother.
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