Shades of Greene: One Generation of an English Family by Jeremy Lewis

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Book has minimal wear. Dust jacket has some scratches on back cover and some chipping at back left foredge.

A remarkable group portrait of one English family - the famed, intriguing and pioneering Greenes. In the early years of the last century, two brothers, Charles and Edward Greene, settled in Berkhamsted, a small country town thirty miles from London.

There they were to found a remarkable dynasty - fathering twelve children between them, each of whom were to lead varied, well-documented and extraordinary lives.

Interlacing biography, history, high adventure and scenes from literary life, Shades of Greene provides a riveting insight into the self-confident, enterprising, upper-middle-class English world that flourished between the 1920s and the 1970s: and into a truly remarkable tribe. (publishers blurb)