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Book SynopsisA vivid, funny and moving memoir about growing up in an astonishing family; a love-letter to a mother and to an extraordinary house''A superbly entertaining memoir full of delicious anecdote, witty portraiture, and unexpected pathos'' Zoe Heller
''The cast of characters in Gully Wells''s memoir is certainly entertaining ... exquisitely delivered'' Sunday TimesIn 2009, six years after her mother''s death, Gully Wells returns to La Migoua, the house in Provence which belonged to her mother - the glamorous, funny, unpredictable and furiously rude American journalist, Dee Wells. Surrounded by the clutter of decades, Gully is taken back to her childhood, to her mother, her adored stepfather - the celebrated, brilliant, womanising Oxford philosopher, A. J. Ayer - and to the rich, sensual memories that the house evokes.Gully''s beautiful, rebellious mother Dee fled Boston when she was seventeen to join the Canadian Army, where she became a Sergeant Major. She
Trade Review'A superbly entertaining memoir full of delicious anecdote, witty portraiture, and unexpected pathos' * Zoe Heller *
‘Travel, celebrity, infidelity - and a generous dose of Provence. Charming and fascinating' * Peter Mayle, author of
A Year in Provence *
‘Gully's writing is like her marvellous figure: lean, provocative and built for humour' * Rupert Everett *
The cast of characters in Gully Wells's memoir is certainly entertaining ... exquisitely delivered * Sunday Times *
So extravagantly entertaining are the opening chapters that you feel this might possibly be the most generous book ever written. Wells piles our plates high -- Frances Wilson * Times Literary Supplement *
