Period Piece is the classic memoir of a Cambridge childhood, written by Charles Darwin\'s granddaughter.
As a young girl Gwen thought it impossible that she could ever succeed as an artist.
It is a shrewd, touching and comic portrait of eccentric relations, and of Cambridge society when it was small enough to be treated as an extension of the family.
It evokes a time when long summer days were disturbed by nothing noisier than a horse, and long winter nights were lit only by candle or gas lamp.
Period Piece is the classic memoir of a Cambridge childhood, written by Charles Darwin\'s granddaughter