Kathleen and Frank: The Autobiography of a Family (FSG Classics) - Softcover

"Show[s] a deeper understanding of much that [Isherwood] had once rebelled against." --W. J. Weatherby, The Guardian

"A moving account of [Isherwood's] parents' marriage based on their letters and diaries." --Mark Bostridge, The Independent on Sunday

"[A] social history of the first half of the [twentieth] century . . . Christopher writes about Christopher with fine, clear, cool precision." --Patrick Skene Catling, The Spectator

A pivotal book in Isherwood's career that reveals as much about him as the parents he set out to portray

Kathleen and Frank is the story of Christopher Isherwood's parents--their meeting in 1895, marriage in 1903 after his father had returned from the Boer War, and his father's death in an assault on Ypres in 1915, which left his mother a widow until her own death in 1960. As well as a family memoir, it is a social history of a period of striking change, and a portrait of the world that shaped Isherwood and that he rejected.