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June 1890, Portugal. A child was created in somewhat inquisitive circumstances. Before years of sixteen, his life was a safe and happy one. At that point it changed all of the sudden, almost brutally. Handicapped by the in physical form freakish appearance, he not only survived but was raised to become celebrated restaurateur. He had unusual abilities: he had the help, in a variety of crises, of individuals as exceptional as himself, and he developed, half intentionally, half unconsciously, a method of defending himself from the peculiar complications of his life. The sound elegance and exceedingly admirable food he offered in his restaurant were real enough, the two people surviving in the basement were real, if in their different ways unconventional, and his young Spanish wife in her chiseled above the restaurant was notably sane and wonderful. In his own rooms, two small rooms on the top of the house, he entertained undeniably real visitors-but of what order of fact? The time covered by the exterior action of this brilliantly composed audiobook runs from 1890 to 1942, years more filled with vivid event and violent interpersonal change than any in our history, and here saved in some sharp-scenes. Storm Jameson (1891- 1986) blessed to a North Yorkshire category of shipbuilders. Jameson's fiery mom, who bore three ladies, encouraged Storm (christened Margaret Storm) to go after an academic education. After being taught privately and at Scarborough municipal school she triumphed in one of three region scholarships which empowered her to read English Books at Leeds University. She then went on to complete an MA in Western european Theatre at King's University London. During her job Jameson composed forty-five books, numerous pamphlets, essays, and reviews, in an effort to generate income. Her personal life endured, and her first matrimony to schoolmaster Charles Douglas Clarke was an unhappy one. Once they divorced in 1925, Jameson went on to marry Man Chapman, a fellow writer, and remained with him despite her apparent rejection of normal home life. Storm Jameson was always politically active, helping to post a Marxist journal in the English section of the International Union of Cutting edge Authors in 1934 and participating anti-fascist rallies.
