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ADVANCE INFORMATION

A Very English

Family (1945-

1954)

The First Volume of a Memoir

Richard Perceval Graves

KEY SELLING POINTS

A memoir telling the story of what it was like being brought up in England in those far-off and very different
days of the 1940s and 1950s.
For all those interested in the life of the poet and novelist Robert Graves who was the author’s uncle.
From the author of ‘Nicky Samuel: My Life and Loves’ also published by Troubador.

Richard Perceval Graves, who has written acclaimed biographies of A.E. Housman, Richard Hughes, the Powys
Brothers and his uncle Robert Graves, has now turned the spotlight on his own life and times: primarily because
he wishes to give a true account of what it was like being brought up in those far-off and very different days of
the 1940s and 1950s.

At the start of Richard’s story, we are living in the shadow of the Second World War. Rationing still exists.
Traditional patriarchal families are the norm, with most women staying at home to look after their children.
England is a largely white, largely Christian and highly deferential society. There is no Internet and no such thing
as a smartphone; and children are reading many of the same books and being brought up in much the same
way as their late-nineteenth-century predecessors, although the wireless now brings them Children’s Hour. The
British Empire still exists: King George VI remains Emperor of India; but a Labour Government is coming to
power and great social changes lie immediately ahead.

Richard Perceval Graves is the author of more than nineteen books, including biographies of T.E. Lawrence,
A.E. Housman, The Powys Brothers, Richard Hughes and Robert Graves. In 1999 he was awarded a
Hawthornden Fellowship, and he Chaired the Powys Society from 2001 to 2005. Richard lives in Bristol.

Comparative title: 9781805140566 Nicky Samuel: My Life and Loves (Oct 2023)

Publication Date: 28th August 2024 £18.99 ISBN: 9781805145042
Thema subject category: DNBA – Autobiography: general
paperback 234 x 156 mm 448 pp Portrait Author location: Bristol

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