First Childhood

Lord Berners

“Quietly remarkable...alive with unforgotten terrors and unforgiven indignities.”
—Alan Hollinghurst

Memoir, Music, Humor, Childhood, 5 x 7, 288 pages, paperback, $14.95, ISBN 1-885983-31-x

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About the Author

Little known in the United States, Lord Berners (1883-1950) was a composer, novelist, painter and conspicuous aesthete. The character of Lord Merlin in Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love is patterned on Lord Berners, who would drop his pigeons into basins of magenta, green and ultramarine so that when released they resembled, as Mitford wrote, “a cloud of confetti in the sky.” Known as “The English Satie,” Berners as a composer collaborated with Sacheverell Sitwell, Gerturde Stein, and Serge Diaghilev.

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