My Family and Other Strangers
When Jeremy Hardy decided to explore his ancestry it was, in part, to get to the bottom of his grandmother Rebecca''s dubious claims that the family descended from a certain 17th-century architect and that, more recently, Jeremy''s great-grandfather was a Royal bodyguard. Other legends ranged from the great aunt who ran illegal hooch during Prohibition to the wronged Victorian servant girl who bor...
When Jeremy Hardy decided to explore his ancestry it was, in part, to get to the bottom of his grandmother Rebecca''s dubious claims that the family descended from a certain 17th-century architect and that, more recently, Jeremy''s great-grandfather was a Royal bodyguard. Other legends ranged from the great aunt who ran illegal hooch during Prohibition to the wronged Victorian servant girl who bor...
