This book is a tale of family disfunction, family secrets and the search for truth. It is a beautifully-written, fascinating account of overcoming personal hardship, and coming to terms with past hurts. Eliza's story will especially interest those who like reading about the English gentry and aristocracy.

Eliza grew up in a fairly wealthy academic family in an idyllic Cambridge setting, but her mother was harsh and mercurial, and her father was much nicer, but distant. Her mother was so nasty to her at times that her friend Victor Rothschild nicknamed her 'Biff'. Eliza wasn't even allowed to have a doll, and was sent away to boarding school.

The family was extremely friendly with the MP Robert Boothby, a strange but likeable character who became involved in a scandal with famous gangsters, the Kreay's. They were also very friendly with the Rothschilds. Sir Victor Rothschild was likeable, and helped Eliza, but they were also quite strange. Eliza tells about unsolved murders, and Rothschild's odd and decidedly chilling theories.

Eliza has a hard time facing her troubled past, and goes through two failed marriages before she finally decides to search for the truth about her family, and finds peace in her personal life and career.

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An interesting account and it is always admirable when a person is willing to lay their life and beliefs out so openly.

This was an interesting little book. I enjoyed reading it, and will probably read it again. I wasn't so sure I would enjoy it, but I did.

As a avid reader of biographies I found this book so boring. I'm not interested in spirituality and meditation.