It contains a fine and rounded account of Cameron's upbringing and early career.
"Hell was far more real to us than Heaven," O'Brien writes, as fine a description of an Irish Catholic upbringing as any.
She probably wouldn't have appreciated a lot of psychologizing about her work, but it seems clear that she drew on her own rough upbringing to play many of her finest roles.
Yet, despite her perilous upbringing, Claire has turned out more than fine.
High office had bred fine sensibilities, and Carausius appeared to be reneging on his upbringing by aligning with Roman rather than provincial culture, and styled himself as the imperial Marcus Aurelius Mausaeus Valerius Carausius.
Armed with intelligence, a fine pair of breasts and aspirations far beyond anything her spartan upbringing might have led her to expect, Clara Maugham is in her final year at university in London, waiting for her life to begin.
Geoffrey Talbot is a fine cricketer, an homme moyen sensuel who is bilingual by accident of upbringing, and becomes a British agent in occupied France.
While Daze's fine art proclivities may be a considerable distance away from his personal idols, his upbringing is central to his work; making the need for the 'less is more' adage irrelevant.
One of his finest poems, Sunlight, in North, was written for his aunt Mary, who was partly responsible for his upbringing.
His upbringing was modest.
