It plunges us into a beautiful English manor house, richly furnished in the English countryside. But this idyllic setting, is an illusion. Begins a family saga full of darkness: - A great-grandmother isolated, who lives locked up in his opulent mansion, behind thick curtains, to better isolate themselves from the world, his own daughter, life - A grandmother, Queen who almost choked his little son on the day of his baptism, whose husband does not know what to do, not daring to part because of holy matrimony, and ends at the asylum on the advice of his mother - Aunt, equally follette, the psychiatrist will fall in love ...
These are the portraits that let us discover this book.
Is it an autobiographical novel? Lady Caroline Blackwood was born into a wealthy Anglo-Irish aristocratic family.
