In My Father’s House by Miranda Seymour

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‘Dear Thrumpton, how I miss you tonight,’ wrote George Seymour in 1944, when he was aged twenty-one and when ownership of the house was a distant dream. But he did eventually acquire Thrumpton, a beautiful country house in Nottinghamshire, and it was in this idyllic home that Miranda Seymour grew up.

But her upbringing was far from idyllic, as life revolved around her father’s capriciousness. The House took priority, and everything else was secondary, even his wife. Until, that is, the day late on in his life when George Seymour took to riding powerful motorbikes around the countryside clad in black leather in the company of a young male friend.

Both biography and family memoir, IN MY FATHER’S HOUSE is a portrait of desire both overt and suppressed, and the devastating consequences of misplaced love.