The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother and Me review a family saga with all the trimmings
Beware of the agapanthus, read a sign at Faringdon, the famously idyllic Oxfordshire home of the composer, novelist and aesthete Lord Berners. But it wasnt the garden of which visitors the glittering roll call included Gertrude Stein, Nancy Mitford, Igor Stravinsky and Salvador Dal needed to take care. In its heyday, Faringdon was