Born in Australia, Gail Holst-Warhaft is a writer and translator who has published a number of books about modern Greek music and literature, and translated some of Greece’s most important writers into English. Her translations of Greek literature and her own poems have been published in book form and in various journals. While living in Greece in the 1970s she played the harpsichord with some of Greece’s leading composers. She now lives with her husband in Ithaca, upstate New York.

• List of illustrations   viAcknowledgements   viiiA Word of Introduction   xDedication   xiiCHAPTERONE    London — East End — 1893   1TWO   Around Cape Horn   11THREE   The Silver King   29FOUR   My Father’s Short War   43FIVE   The Chauffeur and Another Sea Voyage   53SIX    The Gamble   69SEVEN    Cane   79EIGHT   A Car and a Bride   95NINE   In-Laws   113TEN   Gouge   127ELEVEN    My Parents’ Courtship   141TWELVE    Rats — And Yet Another Voyage   151THIRTEEN    Ella — The Americans — I arrive   161FOURTEEN    Eltham   177FIFTEEN    Ella and Teddy   189SIXTEEN    Travelling with My Father   201SEVENTEEN    My Father the Levendis   215Afterlife   221

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