The Spectator, October 11th, 2003
Remembrance of things past THE BEQUEST by John de Falbe Harvill, L15.99, pp. 325, ISBN 1843430398
This is a mixture of a chronicle novel and a biography of the author's family in the 19th century, and begins with a double-page spread of family trees in Denmark and Australia. De Falbe is the great-grandson of Frederik Ziege, a captain in the Danish navy who has served with the Russian navy in a grim expedition to Greenland; and of Emmeline Leslie, a widow of means and sensibility from the Australian bush. They meet in 1865 on a Henry Jamesian ramble round the shores of the Mediterranean. Emmie...
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