Meh.
Have you ever seen those mind-map-like charts that begin with one celebrity and radiate / branch out to show who has had (ahem) relationships with whom? That's this book.
In no particular order, these are some of the linked literati: H.G. Wells, Rebecca West, Elizabeth Von Arnim, Katherine Mansfield, Lady Ottoline Morrell, Bertrand Russell, Clive Bell, Virginia Woolf, Vera Brittain, D.H. Lawrence, Vanessa Bell, Radclyff Hall, E. M Forster, Rebecca West - (no, wait, I already listed her - she finds her way into an amazing number of these stories!) -
Some had children with each other. Some were jealous of others. Some were not jealous of others.
Some are old literary friends of mine. I already knew all of the tidbits herein. I did not learn anything new. Had I not known anything about these people, all I would now know is that writers have libidos.
Not recommended. Not.
Meh.
melanie
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Oh, and the NYT review made it sound so interesting - that's disappointing. Although, to be fair, as someone in a (fairly common) uncommon arrangement myself, I may have been biased toward the subject matter.
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