The Matriarch
Published on 27. June 2013
328 pages
978-1-907970-29-0 (ISBN)
Description
'There is wealth here, and gaiety. There is middle European style, and food in abundance. It is very un-English, and enormously attractive.’ Julia Neuberger The Rakonitz family - rich, cosmopolitan and Jewish - and ruled over by the indomitable will of the matriarch, Anastasia. From her exotically furnished house in west London, Anastasia holds court over her children, grandchildren and vast extended family. For someone must resolve the quarrels, celebrate the births, deaths, engagements, bankruptcies, artistic triumphs, and explain the only way to prepare a delicious Crème Düten. With the dawning of the twentieth century, a series of scandals and financial catastrophes strike the Rakonitzes, threatening the family ties, and calling into question the legacy that binds them together.
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G. B. Stern (1890-1973) grew up in Holland Park, and published her first novel, Pantomime, in 1914. She was close to the centre of literary London, and counted Somerset Maugham, H. G. Wells, Rebecca West and Noël Coward as friends. She wrote over forty novels, several plays, short stories, works of non-fiction and memoir over her long writing career. It was The Matriarch, first in a series of novels based on her own family and published as, The Rakonitz Chronicles, that established her popular and critical success.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION by Linda Grant
- PREFACE
- Epigraph
- CHAPTER 1
- CHAPTER 2
- CHAPTER 3
- CHAPTER 4
- CHAPTER 5
- CHAPTER 6
- CHAPTER 7
- CHAPTER 8
- CHAPTER 9
- CHAPTER 10
- CHAPTER 11
- CHAPTER 12
- CHAPTER 13
- CHAPTER 14
- CHAPTER 15
- CHAPTER 16
- CHAPTER 17
- CHAPTER 18
- CHAPTER 19
- EPILOGUE
- About the Author
- Copyright
