Playing with the Grown-ups - Sophie Dahl

Kitty is happily married, pregnant with her first child and settled into a life in New York when she receives an urgent middle of the night phone call from her younger sister, Violet. Something has happened to their mother, and she is being summoned urgently back home to England. As she sets off, she begins to think back to the secrets of her childhood, her transatlantic upbringing and, ultimately, the essence of her relationship with her mother. This is a modern day fairy tale, about a magical life with an extraordinary mother whose lifestyle is a whirlwind of glamorous parties, short-lived men, all-consuming religion and mind-altering drugs. Kitty is ...  Read the complete review