Half a Life (memoir) critical favorite in the UK, "Half a Life" was called "one of the best books I have ever read" by Ali Catterall on The BBC, as well as "precise, elegantly written, fresh, wise, and very sad ... indicative not only of a very talented writer, but of a proper human being” by Nick Hornby "Half a Life" was widely excerpted in venues such as "GQ", "This American Life", United Kingdom papers "The Times" and "Daily Mail". "Half a Life" received the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. Half a Life (memoir) Half a Life is a book by
A House Divided (Upstairs, Downstairs) A House Divided (Upstairs, Downstairs) "A House Divided" was the second episode of the third series of the British television series, "Upstairs, Downstairs". The episode is set in 1913. Lady Marjorie Bellamy, her brother Hugo Talbot-Carey (the Earl of Southwold), and his new wife (widow Marion Worsley) die in the sinking of the RMS "Titanic". Her lady's maid, Miss Roberts survives the sinking of the "Titanic" while travelling to America with Lady Marjorie, who perishes. Her last known words being uttered to her maid—"Keep this for me, Roberts"—as she hands over her jewellery box. After a week being listed as