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The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother, and Me: An Aristocratic Family, a High-Society Scandal, and an Extraordinary Legacy by Berners, Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson; Zinovieff, Sofka is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This beguiling tale of a scandalous ménage à trois among England's upper classes is a high society love story that combines memoir and biography into a fascinating, heady read in the vein of The Bolter and Portrait of a Marriage. Among the glittering stars of British society, Sofka Zinovieff's grandparents lived and loved with abandon. Robert Heber-Percy was a dashing young man who would rather have a drink than open a book, so his involvement with Jennifer Fry, a beautiful socialite famous for her style and charm, was not surprising. But by the time Robert met and married Jennifer, he had already been involved with a man—Gerald, Lord Berners—for more than a decade. Stout, eccentric, and significantly older, Gerald was a well-known composer, and at home among scholars. He also owned one of Britain's loveliest stately homes, Faringdon House in Oxfordshire. The two made an unlikely couple, especially because they lived together at Faringdon House...

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Author

Berners, Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson; Zinovieff, Sofka

Publisher

Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062338952

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Music, Biography, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.67 / 5 (117 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14