Jigsaw sybille bedford

This is a great book and I’m adding it to my favorites.

A legacy, sybille bedford

A legacy, sybille bedford

Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education is a 1989 semi-autobiographical novel by Sybille Bedford.

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When her father dies, she swaps life in a run-down German chateau for an exhilarating existence with her beautiful, talented and unreliable mother on the French.

It’s an autobiographical novel of the youth of the British writer Sybille Bedford (1911-2006). By “autobiographical novel” I mean most of the events, people and places are true but it is fictionalized. There really isn’t a plot other than the sequence of events in her life.

It’s fundamentally a story of the relationship between this young woman and her mother. As we learn in the book, while at times her mother could be loving and caring, much of the time she was simply 'nucking futs.'



As I summarize her early life in the review below, I am also giving away the 'plot,' so I should write:

SPOILERS FOLLOW

Sybille had one of the most international upbringings you can imagine.

She was born in Germany near the French and Swiss borders and lived her formative years at various times in Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France and the UK.

Her father was much older than her mother.