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A Charmed Life: Growing Up in Macbeth's Castle Book

“You are such lucky children,” Liza Campbell was often told, “it’s a fairytale life you live.” Liza’s father did, after all, hold the title of Thane of Cawdor, and the family divided their time between Cawdor Castle (as featured in Shakespeare’s Macbeth) and other impressive homes in England and Wales. Theirs was a family with a legacy that had lasted almost a millennium. Her father would, in the course of his life and his descent in to madness and addiction, fail to pass that legacy along. He was a man haunted by demons; he would often drink himself into oblivion, recklessly driving along the narrow roads of northern Scotland and Wales, routinely crashing and coming within an inches of death. In his moments of “reformation,” he still lived in an alternate reality. This is the story of her early life, her family, and her father's ultimate failure. This wonderful, heartbreaking, yet ultimately forgiving memoir recalls a childhood played out on an extraordinary and secluded stage. Read More

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    A Charmed Life tells the story of Liza Campbell, the last child to be born at the impressive and renowned Cawdor Castle, the same locale featured in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. It was at the historical ancestral home that Liza’s seemingly idyllic fairytale childhood began to resemble a nightmare.
    Increasingly overwhelmed by his enormous responsibilities, Liza’s father Hugh, the twenty-fifth Thane of Cawdor, tipped into madness fueled by drink, drugs, and extramarital affairs. Over the years, the castle was transformed into an arena of reckless extravagance and terrifying domestic violence, as Liza and her siblings watched their father destroy himself, his family, and their centuries-old legacy.
    Painstakingly honest, thoroughly entertaining, and sharply written, Campbell’s contemporary fairytale tells of growing up as a maiden in a castle where ancient curses and grisly events from centuries ago live on between its stone walls.

    “[A] courageous memoir . . . a page turner set among moats, drawbridges, and portcullises both real and metaphorical.” —Vogue
    “Superbly written.” —Harper’s Bazaar
    “Poignant . . . lovely.” —Entertainment Weekly
    “Edged with relentless wit . . . [A Charmed Life is a] nightmarish memoir that gives fiction a run for its money.” —Kirkus Reviews
    "Intriguing...[a] highly readable story...extraordinary." —Tucson Citizen

  • 0312384963
  • 9780312384968
  • Liza Campbell
  • 25 November 2008
  • Thomas Dunne Books
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 352
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