Having recently posted that I only rread fiction, I now find myself having just completed a Autobiography.. The first I have read in decades, really.
I found that I had read all my library books, and my wee local library isn't open every day , so I was
pretty well forced to read a book I had been given as a gift some years ago.

I found it so excellent I basically opened it ... and read it in one evening.

'A Fence Around the Cuckoo', by Ruth Park. 
Having come from the same part of the world I found it particularly effecting and poignant. I was amazed to see names I hadn't heard since I was a child.  An excruciating, for me, description of the society and country where I was born, with a fearless chronicle of the Great Depression in particular, in New Zealand. My mother lived through the period covered by this book, in not totally dissimilar circumstances, tho not so dire.
Yet I'd known about none of it.
Eye-opening and with wonderful writing, it remained basically optimistic for the future and contains some marvellous true characters and observations about our world generally.
Well worth reading.
I'll have to read Volume Two, which I do not currently own.
It ends when she moves to Australia and marries
D'arcy Niland.. whose name may be familiar to some.  Also contains some excellent photographs.
5 Stars.

Being interested in biographies probably more than fiction, I'm currently reading Portrait of a Marriage, the marriage being Harold Nicholson & Vita Sackville-West in the early 20th century.

Vita's family were involved in two of the most notorious family court cases of the time, both over wills and huge fortunes & property.
One of them arose over the de facto marriage of Vita's grandfather to a Spanish dancer, which produced 5 illegitimate children, one of them being Vita's mother.

When that Lord Sackville was appointed ambassador to Washington, not having a wife, he wanted to make Vita's 19 year old mother his official hostess. Queen Victoria was not amused but gave her approval provided the Americans didn't disapprove of an illegitimate daughter in the position.
The prominent ladies of Washington formed a committee to advise the President and gave their approval.
However that President was assassinated before Vita's mother even arrived. His successor, President Arthur (of whom I'd never heard), became enamoured of Vita's mother and pursued her relentlessly, despite being old enough to be her grandfather.
It's amazing what little snippets of history pop up in things you read.

Vita Sackville-West was a writer, a leading member of the Bloomsbury bohemian set and later a noted garden creator.
She was also involved in several lesbian affairs, one of which was with the daughter of Edward VII's long time mistress Alice Keppel and another with the writer Virginia Woolf.

I am starting on Longbourn, a novel about the reality of life for the servants of the Bennet family of Pride & Prejudice.
It will take me ages, I'm a slow reader these days.

Tell me what kind of stories they are Emma.

I could Google but a) I'm lazy and b) it's more interesting if we talk about what we've read I think

Oh , and I forgot to add that it is called "The Loop" and it's about WOLVES.
Have always loved wolf tales, ever since reading Jack London as a child.

There was another author back then I read ravenously, among many authors, but this fella wrote about Deer, and Elk .. He had a name  like um.. Chesterfield... something like that I and I seem to remember he was a Scot.
????

Jack London:

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