{"id":1371,"date":"2004-10-28T09:26:24","date_gmt":"2004-10-28T13:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2004-10-28T09:26:24","modified_gmt":"2004-10-28T13:26:24","slug":"hominid-variety-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1371","title":{"rendered":"Hominid variety (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The greatest Telegraph<\/em> obituary of this millennium:<\/p>\n\n

Nerina returned to her mother, by now living in a house near Horsham with her sixth husband, Noel Sparrow. Just before her mother’s death in 1958, Nerina decided to take up ballroom dancing and joined a dance club. Before long she had met and fallen in love with Phyllis Haylor, a well-known figure in the ballroom dancing world. After selling the house at Horsham, Nerina and her stepfather moved to live nearer Phyllis in London, where Nerina found work as a secretary at a hostel for unmarried mothers and later as a voluntary social worker with the Samaritans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

It is the extraordinary life of Nerina Shute<\/a>, a woman born into a rich and decadent family two generations on from real power. ” born on July 17 1908 in north Wales, where her parents had briefly repaired after her father lost all his money on the stock exchange; but she spent her early childhood in a house on Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, her father having inherited money from a relative”<\/span><\/p>\n\n

Her mother was to rack up six husbands of her own, and uncounted of other people’s:<\/p>\n\n

in 1920 Renie Shute abandoned her husband and baby son and took Nerina to Hollywood, having received an offer for one of her novels.<\/p>\n\n

There she bought a gold mine in which she and her husband were to lose what remained of their inheritance, created a scandal by embarking on an affair with a married man, then attempted suicide after her lover was killed in a motor accident.<\/p>\n\n

Rapidly recovering from this tragedy, Renie then married a Hollywood actor, despite still being legally married (under English law) to Nerina’s father, thus becoming, consciously or unconsciously, a bigamist. It was at this point that the 18-year-old Nerina decided to return to London …”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

The young Nerina made a career in journalism, but was, herself, only married three times. Her final husband, a distinguished BBC <\/span>war correspondent, made off after she confessed an affair with the maid. Original to the last, she then took up with her ballroom dancer, which is where we started.<\/p>\n\n

This sort of behaviour is why we need brain cases of 1000cc.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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