num_pages: 400
description: Michael Holroyd is one of the finest biographers of the century. And yet he was never interested in exploring his own family's history. His parents' deaths in the 1980s, however, left an unexpected vacuum, which he gradually felt the need to fill with their stories, his narrative. The result is part detective story, part family saga and part an oblique voyage of self-discovery.
language: English
title: Basil Street Blues
titlecomplete: Basil Street Blues
genres: Biography Memoir, Family, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 103
publisher: Isis Large Print Books