Though perhaps better known for her tumultuous marriages to the painter Lucian Freud and poet Robert Lowell, Caroline Blackwood remains a woman whose formidable intellect and artistry indelibly marked every person she met and every sentence she crafted. When he interviewed her a year before her deat[...]
Short-listed for the Booker Prize in 1977, Caroline Blackwood's semiautobiographical masterpiece shows us the chilliest of matriarchs, and the emotional havoc she presides over, as seen through the eyes of a teenage girl.[...]