Jenny Hogan’s blog

As much as I love reading memoirs, I had grave reservations about reading this book. Its all very well to drool over someone else’s life when you don’t know them, have never met anyone they know and are never likely to. I was not sure about reading the cousin’s story, but then of course people started to ask me what I thought of the book and suddenly I was cornered . I have to read it incase I need to defend the family honour (You know me and family honour) and besides I love the cover. The book is both a memoir and a detective story. Following the trail of a researcher/journalist, as they try to put all the pieces of a story together ,is fascinating. Read more