A Humour of Love: A Memoir - Hardcover

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9780704373662: A Humour of Love: A Memoir
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0704373661 ISBN 13: 9780704373662
Publisher: Quartet Books, 1837

Synopsis

Downstairs in the evening, Dad's dinner party is going strong. The county guests and MPs and ladies in their dresses are toasting the success of another great debate in the House of Commons. Upstairs, in the morning before breakfast, Robert, aged seven, is lying nude in his father's bed while Dad kisses him from top to toe. His sisters are asleep, his brother down the corridor blissfully unaware. His mother is divorced and living in London with another woman...So the story unfolds over the next nine years, as seen through the eyes of an angry sixteen-year-old sitting in a ruined castle outside Rome - looking for answers and finding none except for those inside his head.

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About the Author

Robert Montagu published a novel with Quartet Books in 1988 entitled Coming to Terms, which was an account of growing up with a homosexual father. He is the last child of Victor Montagu, who was the 10th Earl of Sandwich (until he disclaimed the title in 1964) as well as MP for South Dorset for many years, and Rosemary Peto, an artist. He was born in 1949, married in 1970 and now has four children and nine grandchildren. Robert is also the founder and chairman of the Dorset Child and Family Counselling Trust.

Review

'In A Humour of Love, Robert Montagu describes in unsparing detail the way in which his father groomed him. How hugs and tickles gave way to kisses, which gave way to serial and serious abuse ... A charming, gentle, articulate man, Robert is not doing this out of vengeance but a belief that this is a story that must be told ... It is an important book and will undoubtedly help victims and their relatives to face up to the terrible nature of abuse and devastating consequences of sweeping it under the carpet' --Mail on Sunday

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Publisher
Quartet Books
Publication date
1837
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0704373661
ISBN 13 
9780704373662
Binding
Hardcover
Rating
  • 4.89 out of 5 stars
    9 ratings by Goodreads