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Book Synopsis_______________A riveting memoir about high society, alcohol and the corrosive effects of wealth'' - Sunday TimesImpossible to put down ... Never before has so much bad behaviour by people who should have known better been crammed into so few pages'' - Rachel Cooke,
Observer''A painful and yet bravely hilarious memoir'' - Evening Standard''s Books of the YearA candid and anecdote-laden book'' - Tatler_______________The step-daughter of poet Robert Lowell and daughter of Caroline Blackwood, Ivana Lowell''s memoir is fascinating, disturbing and completely unique.Beautiful, intelligent and wealthy, Ivana Lowell seemed to have it all. Part of the Guinness dynasty, her family were glamorous and well-connected. Her charismatic but spoilt grandmother Maureen had made an excellent marriage with the Lord of Dufferin and Avon and was a leader of the fashionable set in her youth. Her mother, the writer Caroline Blackwood
Trade Review‘A riveting memoir about high society, alcohol and the corrosive effects of wealth' * Sunday Times *
‘Impossible to put down ... Never before has so much bad behaviour by people who should have known better been crammed into so few pages' * Rachel Cooke, Observer *
'A painful and yet bravely hilarious memoir' * Evening Standards Books of the Year *
‘A candid and anecdote-laden book' * Tatler *
