Strangers

Based on fact, but told with the imagination of a novelist, this is the story of the author's family, the Tennants. Margot Asquith and Pamela Tennant are warring sisters-in-law. Pamela's children: Clare the willful beauty, Stephen the outrageous aesthete, David the nightclub king, and the steady, sensible Christopher who becomes head of the family when Pamela's beloved eldest son Bin dies on the Somme -- these are some fo the characters brought to sudden, and not always respectable, life. Their antics, dreams and grief are witnessed by the maid Louisa, and played out chiefly at Glen, the castle in the Borders of Scotland.