Reviews for The family of the Barrett

The average rating for The family of the Barrett based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-11-16 00:00:00 Richard Mclean Having read a book about her brother, it felt only right knowing the controversy these two had surrounding them to see it from prehapes her point of view. I found her life equally as fascinating and tragic as her brothers. Although hers was not impossed by herself, she was it seems a warm, overtly trusting soul, who did something wicked and incomprehensible, but prehapes was seeing it through simple eyes. This book also give a wonderful account of life during those times and that even though centuaries have past, oh how the 'upper' class live! Well worth a read if youre interested in the Byronic infamy!

Review # 2 was written on 2018-12-15 00:00:00 George Sarantopoulos Not my usual cup of tea and this did not inspire me to try anymore in this style. For one thing there were a lot of excerpts from letters and the Writing style from 1815 was quite different and quite difficult to read. But mainly it is because the people were all so aggravating; stumbling from one drama to Another totally unforgiving of eachother and quite incompentant when it comes to handling normal Life situations like earning a living. It just seemed to me that one half of the upperclasses didn't ahve enough to do and so wasted thier time on parties and stabbing eachother in the back and the other half seemed semi idiots. Of course there is Another side to this economic and political Group but none of those people featured very much in this Life story. If you like 200 year old gossip read it, if not stay well away.