Title: The three of us : a family story /
Authors: Blackburn, Julia
Publisher: Jonathan Cape,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Blackburn, Julia; Blackburn, Julia Family.; De Meric, Rosalie,; Blackburn, Thomas,; Women authors, English Biography.; Authors, English Biography; Poets, English Biography; Women painters Great Britain Biography.; Painters Great Britain Biography.
Abstract: "Thomas was a poet and an alcoholic, who for many years was addicted to barbiturates, which would often make him violent. Rosalie, a painter, was sociable and flirtatious; she treated Julia as her sister, her confidante, and eventually as her deadly sexual rival. For after her parents were divorced, Julia's mother took in lodgers, always men, on the understanding that each should become her lover. When one of the lodgers started an affair with Julia, Rosalie was devastated; when he later committed suicide the relationship between mother and daughter was shattered irrevocably." "Or so it seemed until the spring of 1999, when Rosalie, diagnosed with leukaemia, came to live with Julia for the last month of her life. At last the spell was broken, and they were able to talk with an ease they had never known before. When she was very near the end, Rosalie said to Julia, 'Now you will be able to write about me, won't you?'"--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: This is the story -- A supper party -- Back home -- Visiting Doctor Kollestrom -- Marriage -- And then a baby -- Bright eyes -- Dancing with Francis Bacon -- The old Bs -- The story of Boonie and Tuggie -- Moonlight in the garden -- Don't worry, Darling -- The facts of life -- Having a dog -- Altered houses -- Father comes to tea -- Talking dirty -- Uncle guy -- Driving to Majorca -- Driving back from Majorca -- Lodger number seven -- Private -- A little family -- And then -- A red nightdress -- York Street -- Certain choices -- In the house of Aaron Juda -- Daily life -- The year comes full circle -- Thinking things over -- One spring morning -- Putting it in writing -- The scent of adrenaline in the air -- My stumbling father -- Dear Rosalie, Dear Tommy -- Seeing God -- Jubilate -- A funeral in Wales -- Rosalie -- Here.