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valariesmith 's review for:
Deceived With Kindness
by Angelica Garnett
This detailed, intimate autobiography is a must for fans who want to better understand Bloomsbury's dynamics and relationships. While I enjoyed reading it, though, it seems awash in contradictions: was Vanessa dominant and overbearing, or was she remote and unaffectionate? Did she give too much freedom or not enough? And for all this, I'm still not sure what Angelica's basic issue is with her mother. (Yes, Vanessa kept her real father a secret from her, but then, so did her father, and he isn't blamed.) Angelica just seems like a lost soul who had more freedom than she knew what to do with; I hope that, at some point, she was able to take personal responsibility for her decisions and start leading a full, true life.