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The Silver River by Daisy Goodwin (Hardcover, 2007)

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Author : Goodwin, Daisy. Silver River: A Family Story. Dust cover is intact and pages are clean and not marred by notes. Item may contain remainder marks on outside edges. Used - Good: All pages and cover are intact (including the dust cover, if applicable).

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Daisy Goodwin's mother, the designer Jocasta Innes, left home when Daisy was five and embarked upon a bohemian life in Swanage. Daisy was brought up by her respectable father and her meticulous German stepmother and adored her feckless mother from afar. She made sense of her mother's difference and of her absence through her imaginings about her unstable South American history. It was only when Daisy underwent a deep suicidal depression following the birth of her own daughter, that she felt the weight of her mother's abandonment and the burden of her family's past take root in her own life. Daisy's family, on her mother's side,is as eccentric and wayward as any family could be. Her Irish forebears - a Catholic and a Protestant - were driven from their southern Irish home and emigrated to Argentina. Their history there is one of vast wealth rapidly acquired and just as rapidly lost, of gambling, of horses, of suicides and breakdowns, of isolation in the bleak expanses of the Pampas and of the heights of high society. In this memoir, the contrasts between Argentina and England serve as a metaphor for the clashes in the author's life, caught between two parents, two countries and two cultures. Intensely personal, funny and unsentimental, The Silver River explores universal questions about families, identity and growing up.