Book review: The Fall of the House of Wilde

Oscar Wilde was the most famous — and notorious — of his family but they were already a wild bunch long before his scandalous downfall. Mary Leland reads between the lines of a chronicle of fortune and misfortune.

Book review: The Fall of the House of Wilde
Sat, 27 Aug, 2016 - 01:00
Review: Mary Leland

Emer O’Sullivan

Bloomsbury, €25

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