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The Queen of Whale Cay by: Kate Summerscale |
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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 972.96 EAN: 9780670880188 ISBN: 0670880183 Label: Viking Pr Manufacturer: Viking Pr Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: 1998-05 Publisher: Viking Pr Studio: Viking Pr Sales Rank: 1004033 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Stunning - and no review can do it justice What a wonderful delightful surprise this book has been. The Queen of Whale Cay - Joe - was brave, fiercely loyal and completely unique. There never has and never will be anyone like her. A packed life that inspires you to do more with your own. A loyalty to friends that reminds you to look up the ones you've left behind. This book brings Joe's past to life with scenes and stories you could never have imagined. And when I watch old movies from now on I'll recall the scenes from this book that were happening at the same time. For example Joe's encounters with Marlene Dietrich make me want to watch her (YouTube - that scene from Morocco 1930)movies again. For example scenes from World War 1 - Joe was driving an Ambulance aged just 16. ... Read More: Rating:  - Weird, but wonderfulJoe Carstairs was certainly eccentric, but also very talented. I wonder if these days she would be diagnosed with gender dysphoria and offered some kind of treatment? She seemed to deny totally her feminity, dressing as a male, and affecting a pipe - and having sailor style tattoos, too. Of course, being eccentric is easier when your grandfather was a business partner of Rockefeller and made his fortune from oil - which you then inherited a large slice of. I was intrigued by the author's insight into the craze for "boyishness" in the 1920s, and also I learned something I didn't know about the First World War - the role of Chinese labourers in the trenches and the aftermath. The louche behaviour and extravagant lifestyle was tempered by the ... Read More: Rating: - lord tod wadleys alter egoThe life of "Joe"Carstairs is a real journey of a biography,from America in the 1890s,Paris and London in the 20's and crucially the Bahamas in the40's.Joe led a truly fast life,always accompanied by her alter ego Lord Tod Wadley.This is a fantastic read,and a far from "run of the mill"biography.What started out as an obituary in The Daily Telegraph turned into something very special. Rating: - Wadd a wonderful read!An excellent story of weird, wonderful and quite frankly warped behaviour - an obsession with a doll dressed in flying jackets and matelot outfits could not be made up - a terrific yet terrifying account of maverick behaviour from a lady who just could not and would not conform! Rating: - scandalous, revealing, charming: a most unlikely lifeBorn in the same year as the Queen Mother (1900) the life of Marion Barbara ("Joe") Carstairs took a very different course. A wonderful and beautifully written account of an outrageous twentieth century personality. The story moves from the battlefields of World War I to an island paradise in the Bahamas via the louche and fast society of London in the Twenties. Those met on the way include Tallulah Bankhead, Dolly Wilde, Marlene Dietrich and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. |
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