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Dear Lumpy: Letters To A Disobedient Daughter (2013)

by Roger Mortimer(Favorite Author)

3.5 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1472109279 (ISBN13: 9781472109279)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Constable

review 1: Follow on to Dear Lupin, Lumpy being the sister Louise Mortimer of Roger Mortimer the racing correspondent for The Sunday Times. This is a collection of the letters that Louise received from her father from the age of 12 when she started boarding school until his death in 1991. The letters are full of gossip and anecdotes about the family, the family pest and the increasingly eccentric friends that populated their day to day life. There is gossip, ticking's off and hilarious accounts of days out with Nidnod (Louise's mum) who certainly had a drink problem in later life. She also had a series of wigs which she insisted on wearing at a peculiar angle.The book highlights how much we have lost now that most communication is by e mail, twitter and messaging. The letters are de... morelightful and funny
review 2: Throughtout her adolescent years at boarding school and on into her adult life, Louise (aka Lumpy)'s father, Roger Mortimer, writes to her with regular letters that she eventually, 20 years after his death, put together into a book.This is a sequel to 'Dear Lupin', a similiar collection of letters written to Mortimer's son Charlie.Not having read the 'Lupin' volume, I enjoyed very much his 'letters to a disobedient daughter'. Roger Mortimer is almost visible and in the room with you a lot of the time. He is eccentric, witty, and actually quite sensitive at times to the changes going on in his daughter's life. I particularly was impressed with his reaction to Louise marrying her boyfriend in secret and not telling them until near the date of their planned 'wedding'. The selling points of the book are the humour, which leaps off of every page, and also the insight you get into the lives of some rather quite rich people who, though quite humble about it, are privileged, meet other rich people often, have a fair amount of leisure time and are also what one might term "'completely batty'!There is a lot about the family dogs contained here too, a little too much for my liking. And also a lot of what, in some families, might be confused as insults, but in Lumpy's family, is clear that such remarks are intended as loving and light-hearted:"I hope you are big and well and looking, as usual, like a plump Dutch cheese".Roger's affection for Louise is clear, his style of writing charming, stream-of-consciousness crazy but loveable, and the book a very entertaining few hours revelry in nonsense and sense alike. less

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