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changeablelandscape's review
emotional
informative
sad
slow-paced
4.0
This is about the short life of Julian Grenfell, who was a child of Edwardian privilege, had a very complicated relationship to his family (especially his mother), and then died in World War I -- written by Nicholas Mosley, whose first wife was Grenfell's niece (although he died long before she was born). It is really, though, an interesting attempt to analyse the world of wealthy landed people in late 19th/early 20th century England, with some thoughts on how their way of life & base assumptions helped lead to the carnage of WWI. I am not sure how factually successful it is, Mosley was a novelist, not a social scientist or cultural critic, but (as a person interested in that kind of thing) I found it fascinating and very moving.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death and Death of parent
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