A Magnificent Misfit
Atlantic, The, April, 2002 by Christina Schwarz
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With this memoir rich in dark humor and vivid prose, Lorna Sage—who at the time of her death last year, just two days short of her fifty-eighth birthday, was one of Britain's most admired women of letters—charts her bookish girlhood in a disorderly family centered in a place of "changeless order": post-World War II Hanmer, Wales.
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Although most of the rural town's inhabitants knew their place and expected to stay there, Sage was a misfit in a family of misfits, much to her eventual advantage in the wider world. Reading Sage's account of her eccentric family—the grandmother who subsists on tea cakes and unstinting hatred of her husband; the mother who reverts to girlishness when her husband returns from the war, forgetting how to ride a bike and celebrating her ineptitude as a housewife; and the father whose "characteristic tone of voice was a sort of self-righteous yell"—is like listening ...
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