Kipling & Trix
by Mary Hamer
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Pub Date Dec 11 2012 | Archive Date May 02 2015
Description
As small children, Rudyard Kipling and his sister Trix lived an enchanted life in India playing with their beloved servants and running around freely. Their innocent happiness came to an abrupt end when they were sent back to England to live with strangers and forced to conform to the strict rules of Edwardian society in an alien country.
Both brother and sister grew up to become writers, although one lived in the shadow of the other's genius. Rudyard Kipling's incredible life is known to many while his poetry and books have been read by millions – but what became of his talented younger sister? Her story, full of love and lies, became a distressing family secret that was hidden from the world...
Mary Hamer has unearthed the truth about Alice Kipling, known to her family affectionately as Trix. In this fictionalised account of their lives, the author goes to the heart of the relationship between a difficult brother and his troubled sister and explores how their early lives shaped the very different people they were later to become.
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'Hamer's book opens up the complex world of the Kiplings, moving between continents and momentous world events' -Daily Mail
'Mary Hamer's Kipling and Trix elegantly walks
the borders between fact and fiction in her retelling of Rudyard Kipling's
story and his relationship with his sister Trix' - Historical Novel Society
‘Mary Hamer's novel about the lives of Rudyard Kipling and his sister Alice, 'Trix' to her family, is intelligent, vividly imagined and a real page-turner’ – Kipling Journal
'The
childhood scenes are particularly compelling, revealing how brother and sister,
though dependents, were gradually becoming rivals....The book is a rich collage
of potent scenes - you shift viewpoint and we see Rud and Trix through the eyes
of many others.' - Pam Johnson, Words Unlimited
"Although based closely on historical fact, Kipling and Trix is a tour-de-force of imaginative fiction as well as a lyrically written, if often harrowing, tale of surprising passion." - Gina Barreca, Huffington Post
"Truly engaging" - The Writes of Women
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781906582340 |
| PRICE | $22.95 (USD) |
Featured Reviews
Kathleen D, Reviewer
Oh the crushing weight of Kipling's losses in life! Reading about the lushly exotic childhood made me understand so much more about him as an author. I have to confess I didn't know his sister was an author, in fact I didn't really know much about Kipling-the man. From reading this, I go between thinking 'Lord but he has an ego' to 'poor man'. As was done, children were sent away at such a young age, in their case to the horrid 'Auntie Sara' who favored (if one such as she can favor) his sister and hated him. To go from a free, idealic loving place to a nightmare altered the siblings in different ways. Kipling was about escape while his sister seemed to lose herself, with breakdowns. That she was a writer, I didn't know that either. I think of other authors eclipsed by better known, more beloved writers of their relation- some spouses as well as siblings. Such a shame!
It is interesting to see his sister embrace the cruelty of their 'Auntie Sara', better the devil you know- I suppose. Like many families, the reader witnesses how chidhood affects people differently. We see Kipling as a young man, tortured by love and all it's betrayals and later with a family of his own. I didn't much care for their mother. This is such a tragic telling of the siblings life, and sometimes I forget how tragic earlier times were for many- losing children to illness and war, so many not having much say in their fate, social standing cripling true love. This isn't a happy light read, but real life rarely is.
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