Elizabeth Manson-Bahr Ordre des livres

If you love the TV programme – Who do you think you are? – you should buy this book. It is the story of the author’s journey back through her family’s history. For anyone who is fascinated by the history of Britain’s connection with the rest of the world, it will be compulsive reading, full of exotic characters in colourful locations.

What would you do if your sister brought home a stray dog with short hairy legs, a coat like a coconut, a long thin ratty tail and a snout full of sharp teeth? Gregory and his mother and father thought they knew, but things didn't turn out quite as they hoped!