Lyndall Gordon: Divided Lives [2014] paperback Condition:New at midnight on 14 August

at midnight on 14 August 1947

Respected and trusted by his men

and their children have long since fled for the catastrophes of their own lives

radio and stage

The result is both captivating and revelatory

Lyndall Gordon: Divided Lives [2014] paperback Condition:New at midnight on 14 August'As a child, I'm to be my mother's "sister" because she wants one so. My part is to be there if she's ill. At four years old, it's a privilege to have this responsibility instead of trotting off to nursery school like other children.' So begins the renowned and award wining biographer's book about her own life particularly in relationship to her mother an extraordinary and intensely realised tale of loyalty and division; breakdown and recovery;