Barrie for the family of Arthur Llewelyn Davies and his wife, the former Sylvia du Maurier, and especially their five sons: George, John, Peter, Michael, and Nicholas. In short, the author, Piers Dudgeon, has detailed the secret (or maybe not so secret?) obsession by the esteemed and exceedingly successful J.M. It’s on the library stack for return today, so this will be a very brief summary. And oh my gosh – what a can of worms this turned out to be. I hadn’t realized there was any sort of connection, so was quite intrigued by the subtitle. This was a recent library loan, picked up on a whim because of the du Maurier reference.
Points off for the blatant speculation, sometimes admitted to by the author, that makes “truth” out of shreds of fact. Extra points for the vast amount of research that obviously went into this project. Not “good science”, if you get my meaning. It certainly held my interest, but I have some issues with how the author presented some of his more far-fetched speculations as fact, without any of the language needed to make it clear that some conclusions were very much fabricated by the biographer. Barrie, the du Mauriers and the dark side of Neverland in Great Britain, Chatto and Windus, 2008. Barrie, the Du Mauriers, and the Dark Side of Peter Pan by Piers Dudgeon ~ 2009.
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