Michael Holroyd: Ancestors in the Attic: Including My Great-Grandmother's Book of Ferns and My Aunt's Book of Silent Actors [2017] hardback Condition:New has fought hard for his

has fought hard for his freedom

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Michael Holroyd: Ancestors in the Attic: Including My Great-Grandmother's Book of Ferns and My Aunt's Book of Silent Actors [2017] hardback Condition:New has fought hard for hisMichael Holroyd, perhaps the most distinguished of contemporary biographers, has in recent years turned his attention to the stories hidden within his own fascinating (not to say eccentric) family. In Ancestors in the Attic he teases out two especially intriguing episodes, the tales of his great grandmother and his aunt, which he categorizes respectively as tragedy and comedy. He tells their stories not only in words but also in pictures, through two