Strangers — Emma Tennant

'So beautiful, so atmospheric, so eerie, so remote and revealing and, finally, so loving' - ELAINE DUNDY 'A brilliant book about the extraordinary and eccentric Tennant family' - ANTONIA FRASER Based on fact, but told with the imagination of a novelist, this is the story of the author's family, the Tennants. Margot Asquith and Pamela Tennant, warring sisters-in-law; Pamela's children - Clare the wilful beauty, Stephen the outrageous aesthete, David the nightclub king, and the steady, sensible Christopher who becomes head of the family when Pamela's beloved eldest son Bim dies on the Somme - these are some of the characters brought to sudden, and not always respectable, life. Their antics, dreams and grief are witnessed by the maid Louisa, and played out chiefly at Glen, the castle in the Borders of Scotland.