# Scenes and Apparitions

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- Book: [Scenes and Apparitions](https://www.bookquiver.com/strong-roy/scenes-and-apparitions) ([Scenes and Apparitions.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/strong-roy/scenes-and-apparitions.md))
- Authors: [Roy Strong](https://www.bookquiver.com/strong-roy)
- Publisher: w_n
- ISBN: 978-14-7460-390-4
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2017-11-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'Viper wit from the gardener, writer and Knight of exquisite taste' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Funny, barbed and moving ... magnificently readable' THE TIMES Scenes and Apparitions covers a period of Roy Strong's life from 1988 to 2003. A sequel to Splendours and Miseries, it is an unmissable record of how a citizen at the close of the second Elizabethan age observed and chronicled his own world at the turn of the century. Although it is not without tragedy - the murder of his friend Gianni Versace, and the death of his beloved wife Julia Trevelyan Oman - there is plenty to enjoy from his descriptions of Elton John's fiftieth birthday party, to a concert for the Queen Mother, and his portraits of marriage, friendship, work and his celebrated garden, The Laskett.