My Family and Other Strangers: Adventures in Family History

by Jeremy Hardy

When Jeremy Hardy decided to explore his ancestry it was, in part, to get to the bottom of his grandmother Rebecca's dubious claims that the family descended from a certain 17th-century architect and that, more recently, Jeremy's great-grandfather was a Royal bodyguard. Other legends ranged from the great aunt who ran illegal hooch during Prohibition to the wronged Victorian servant girl who bore an illegitimate Hardy, not forgetting the family's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0091927501
• ISBN13: 9780091927509
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Ebury Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.