QUICK, DIANA. (SIGNED). - A Tug On The Thread. From The British Raj to the British Stage. A Family Memoir. Diana Quick .

London: Virago Press, 2009 . 9781860498442. A very good signed first edition with the original illustrated dustwrapper. pp.316 + map; family tree; and 16pp. of black & white pictures. Illustrated dustwrapper, lightly rubbe and bumped. Red cloth covered boards, corners bumped. Dark blue titles to spine. Illustrated endpaper. Neat inscription to title page: "For Danae With all good wishes and thankyou for the glorious roses. Diana Quick 13-vi-09." Very clean throughout. Diana Marilyn Quick (born 23 November 1946) - a highly intelligent actress - has written a most original and compelling family memoir which defies categorisation. It is certainly not a straightforward autobiography; it is, as the blurb says, 'part detective story, part door into an actor's world'.. Written with grace, candour and unflagging curiosity, it takes the form of double journey: both interior, into the roots of Diana Quick's stage vocation, and exterior, into the hidden lives of her forebears. Her ancestors had spent several generations in India. Via dogged interviews, travels and research, from Bengal to Punjab to Surrey, Quick finds a confused Anglo-Indian clan never quite sure of where they stood in terms of race or class. (Matriarch "Lucky" Johnstone began as Lakshmi.) This luminous book draws the poison from their secrets, tracing a long, absorbing saga of "defiant denial and fear of discovery". - See Book Review by Boyd Tonkin, 18/06/10, Independent Newspaper.

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