In My Father's House Miranda Seymour

Every family has a secret. For Miranda Seymour it was growing up in Thrumpton House and understanding that life revolved around her obsessive father George Seymour and his desire to own the beautiful country house in Nottingham.

When her father finally did come to own Thrumpton, the House took priority over everything and everyone, including his own daughter. Until, that is George took to riding powerful motorbikes around the countryside clad in black leather in the company of a young male friend. Had he taken leave of his senses or finally found them? And how did this sea-change affect his wife and daughter? As his behaviour drew darkness into Thrumpton, and as everyone around him became damaged by his transformation, Seymour struggled to reconcile the father she knew to the man he had become.

Seymour carved out a career as a highly respected author, battling to be recognised as more important than simple bricks and mortar and convince her father, who held his own literary aspirations, that she was destined for things. But it was not to be, and his fierce criticism and general ignorance of her work forced them further apart.

Shifting brilliantly between the heartfelt and sometimes painful insights of the past and reality of her father's life and the legacy he left behind, Seymour brings the man she never really knew to vivid life: his foibles, his passions, his extremes and in doing so lays herself open in this cathartic memoir.

Both biography and family memoir, 'In My Father's House' is a riveting and ultimately shocking portrait of desire both overt and suppressed as well as devastating consequences of misplaced love.

About the Author - Miranada Seymour
Miranda Seymour, celebrated both as a novelist and a biographer, has been a visiting professor at Nottingham Trent University, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She is also the author of 'The Bugatti Queen', 'Life of Mary Shelley', 'The Telling', 'The Reluctant Devil' and 'Madonna of the Island', amongst others.

In My Father's House
Simon & Schuster
Author: Miranda Seymour
ISBN: 9781416502722
RRP: $24.95