Summary
When Alexander Waugh opened up the family diaries of Britain's most celebrated literary dynasty, he discovered a secret world of spite, envy and bizarre sexual obsession
THERE is not a single family in Britain that does not claim among its members an equal number of oddballs and cranks as my own. Think of all your great-uncles and aunts, your distant relatives and great- grannies. How many of them can you honestly describe as regular?See the full content of this document
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My Life in the Waugh Zone
What makes the Waughs exceptional is not that they were eccentric or strange, like every other family, but that they were all writers by profession.
And because of this - because they valued and hoarded their letters and diaries, because many of them actually preferred the written to the spoken word, and because, for some reason, they were all extraordinarily candid - my family has ended up with the most extensive archive of material relating to the father-son predicament of any family in the world. What a terrible shame it is that nowaday...See the full content of this document
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