![]() ![]() (Unless, of course, a book is tailor-made upon special request of some "customer" or other.) I am trying to be less judgmental & more generous than Lovell herself, but most of the time this piece truly read like bespoke propaganda for Diana & Unity. IMHO, it's not a biographer's task to judge or to try and find extenuating circumstances for the pronounced moral or political foolishness and wrongdoings of some sisters, while laying the blame on and disapproving for much less of the others. This was an informative read and interesting for a while, but the inaccuracies and cracks were obvious from the beginning and grated more and more as I read on. We are all humans, etcetera, but I, as a reader, expect much higher professionalism & a more detached attitude in biographies. Nancy is hardly there, Pam almost nonexistent & Debo is also an afterthought. ![]() ![]() Whether this was what affected her attitude towards them (had she been more objective toward Diana and Unity, maybe this source would have been cut off) or whether her stance was warped from the beginning is hard to say (though I tend to think the latter), still this biography is flawed and deficient despite the heaps of info crammed in. Obviously, Lovell got access to loads of valuable material, courtesy of some of the sisters themselves. An openly biased and judgmental work, even if well-researched. ![]()
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