In Search of Truth
by Eliza Harrison
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Pub Date 28 May 2023 | Archive Date 19 Jun 2023
The Book Guild | Book Guild Publishing
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Description
Raised among the Cambridge intellectual elite with a distant father and authoritarian mother, Eliza grows up feeling inadequate and alone. But her parents’ friends offer support – notably the Rothschild family and Lord Bob Boothby.
In a bid to find love, she marries a charismatic young actor, but when he lands the star role in a Fellini film, his focus turns elsewhere. As feelings of rejection set in, Eliza looks inward for answers, her spiritual search begins and she escapes to the Yorkshire Dales and pours her energy into writing, photography and teaching meditation.
As shadows from the past recede, horizons expand, and Eliza perceives a series of betrayals among her parents’ friends that make her question her own paternity. Determined to uncover the truth, she begins unravelling a tangled web of secrecy and scandal that not only touches upon her own family, but extends to the highest levels of government.
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A beautifully written memoir documenting a woman's search for her own identity and the discovery that her father was a notorious Conservative politician with a colourful personal life.
The author founded a meditation centre in Cumbria and now runs Sacred Meditation, and the book details her journey of awakening.
Features thirty of the author's photographs.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781915853868 |
| PRICE | £5.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 216 |
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Lisa S, Reviewer
This book is a tale of family disfunction, family secrets and the search for truth. It is a beautifully-written, fascinating account of overcoming personal hardship, and coming to terms with past hurts. Eliza's story will especially interest those who like reading about the English gentry and aristocracy.
Eliza grew up in a fairly wealthy academic family in an idyllic Cambridge setting, but her mother was harsh and mercurial, and her father was much nicer, but distant. Her mother was so nasty to her at times that her friend Victor Rothschild nicknamed her 'Biff'. Eliza wasn't even allowed to have a doll, and was sent away to boarding school.
The family was extremely friendly with the MP Robert Boothby, a strange but likeable character who became involved in a scandal with famous gangsters, the Kreay's. They were also very friendly with the Rothschilds. Sir Victor Rothschild was likeable, and helped Eliza, but they were also quite strange. Eliza tells about unsolved murders, and Rothschild's odd and decidedly chilling theories.
Eliza has a hard time facing her troubled past, and goes through two failed marriages before she finally decides to search for the truth about her family, and finds peace in her personal life and career.
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