A.N. Wilson

Uncle Tom Wedgwood and all

Emma Darwin takes us through the many branches and twigs of her bewildering family tree

issue 02 February 2019

  • This is Not a Book About Charles Darwin: A Writer’s Journey Through My Family

    Emma Darwin

    Holland House Books, pp. 259

Readers of Geoff Dyer’s Out of Sheer Rage will remember that its author set out to write a life of D.H. Lawrence and somehow it never got written. In the course of the story, however, we travel to many of the scenes where Lawrence lived and wrote, and a hilarious  journey it is.

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