Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found (27 page)
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Authors: Allegra Huston
Allegra Huston was born in London, and raised in Ireland, Long Island, and Los Angeles. She has worked with Chatto & Windus publishers in London, and Weidenfeld & Nicolson, where she was editorial director from 1990 to 1994. A freelance writer and editor for over ten years, her work has appeared in
The Times,
the
Independent,
the
Tatler,
and
Harper’s Bazaar
(all in the UK), in French
Vogue,
and in the United States in
People,
the
Santa Fean,
and
Mothering.
She is co-director of the Writing Salon, a workshop retreat for writers held annually in Taos, New Mexico, and in other places around the world. She lives in Taos with her son, Rafa, and his father, Cisco Guevara.
I look worried because I’m afraid of Tony’s hawk. (
Photo Richard Avedon
)
I’m only a few days old. On her wedding-ring finger, Mum is wearing the gold panther ring that Anjel gave me for my twenty-first birthday.
Nurse with me. In the few photographs I have of her, she is in the shadows.
Mum in the courtyard at St. Cleran’s. This is my favorite photograph of her.
Mum and Dad. (
Photo Lillian Ross
)
John Julius around the time that he and Mum fell in love.
Me and Anjel. (
Photo Norman Parkinson/Condé Nast
)
The back of the Little House, taken from the garden. The upstairs window is Mum’s room. She sent this photo to John Julius the first Christmas they were apart.
The Big House. It looked even bigger approached from behind, with the basement story visible.
With Danny and the Lynch girls and one of the hunt hounds. I’m using Danny as my shield.
At the beach in Connemara.
The Bhutan Room, exactly as it looked when it was mine.
The day of Caroline Lynch’s first Communion. Standing behind is Karen Creagh. I was quite envious of Caroline’s dress but thought Daddy would laugh at me if I asked to make my first Communion too. (
Photo Mary Lynch
)
