Book Reviews - Murders/Suicide at WHF

[mertol22]

I think also colin had little regard for june ,  patti has mentioned a page or two from the book  about them sunbathing nude yet when they got back to the house nevill saw the funny side of it, is it possible colin had had enough of june rather than sheila ?

[Patti]

Bridget, You're unlikely to to find mention of June's "obsession with sex" mentioned. It comes from what I've read, what I've been told and my observations as to how she is portrayed as raising her daughter. It is not so much a condemnation as an acknowledgement that she was a troubled woman.

Hi april...form what I gather June ruled and that was it....Colin said that the family portrayed themselves differently when in public and, that no one knew the real them behind closed doors.

[Patti]

I think also colin had little regard for june ,  patti has mentioned a page or two from the book  about them sunbathing nude yet when they got back to the house nevill saw the funny side of it, is it possible colin had had enough of june rather than sheila ?

Hi Mertol...I think it was Nevill's get out of it all.....where he often said " Oh Well" and walked away.

Have you finished it yet? Must finish mine today , then re-read it and take notes...lol

I have a signed copy of Lomax's book on the way....did you know that...

[mertol22]

Hi Mertol...I think it was Nevill's get out of it all.....where he often said " Oh Well" and walked away.

Have you finished it yet? Must finish mine today , then re-read it and take notes...lol

I have a signed copy of Lomax's book on the way....did you know that...

i have finished the book  last night after dallas, however i still need to find that page of figure walking away i will try today, i am aware miss marple of your signed book when i went on amazon i could not see them lucky you !

[Jane]

Quite frankly I think the whole of modern society is obsessed with sex. She just had an obsession with it as being dirty and sinful outside of marriage.

I think that tells us she regarded sex as generally distasteful. I'm not sure how, within the space of time it takes to unite people in marriage, an act seen as dirty and sinful can become pure and beautiful.

[mertol22]

Hi april...form what I gather June ruled and that was it....Colin said that the family portrayed themselves differently when in public and, that no one knew the real them behind closed doors.

There is always two sides patti, June did rule end of, i dont know if jeremy is a man of religion then and now,my gut feeling he was not because if he was he would recieve the same stern bible bashing sheila and the boys did, sheila did believe and that left her open to the wrath of june.

[Patti]

i have finished the book  last night after dallas, however i still need to find that page of figure walking away i will try today, i am aware miss marple of your signed book when i went on amazon i could not see them lucky you !

Hi Mertol....It did say one collectable...but after I bought the book, it still said one collectable, but when I looked the other day there was no collectable one...So I must have bought the last one and, it was a steal....

[Jane]

Hi april...form what I gather June ruled and that was it....Colin said that the family portrayed themselves differently when in public and, that no one knew the real them behind closed doors.

Patti, how strange!!! You could be describing my family!!!! My mother ruled, and she had the same need to control (and demand absolute obedience from me) as I suspect June had of Sheila.

[mertol22]

Hi Mertol....It did say one collectable...but after I bought the book, it still said one collectable, but when I looked the other day there was no collectable one...So I must have bought the last one and, it was a steal....

yes it was you have a steal , you rather like these little chaps the smilies !

[Patti]

There is always two sides patti, June did rule end of, i dont know if jeremy is a man of religion then and now,my gut feeling he was not because if he was he would recieve the same stern bible bashing sheila and the boys did, sheila did believe and that left her open to the wrath of june.

Mertol did you feel that Sheila was very religious according Collin's book? They were both into Tarot and I believe Colin still is.

[Jane]

Apparently when children are at a very young age that is when they learn the most and it is usually the mother who imparts the most useful information to them?

Grahame, you are exactly correct. The Jesuits say "Give me the child at (6, I think) and I will give you the man) Thus, whatever baggage Mummy is carrying gets passed to her child and whatever bad habits she has imparted are almost impossible for teachers to rectify.

[mertol22]

Mertol did you feel that Sheila was very religious according Collin's book? They were both into Tarot and I believe Colin still is.

I do patti in regards to sheila , however june had a lot to do with that,and when june passed her worship for god to the boys this seems to when the trouble started , with colin i think also today yes he does believe , colin did seek help for a seance to contact sheila did he not ? but with colin i feel he had little control when the boys were there , those drawings the boys did speak for themselves.

[Patti]

Patti, how strange!!! You could be describing my family!!!! My mother ruled, and she had the same need to control (and demand absolute obedience from me) as I suspect June had of Sheila.

Patti, how strange!!! You could be describing my family!!!! My mother ruled, and she had the same need to control (and demand absolute obedience from me) as I suspect June had of Sheila.

Aww, sorry to hear that april, I hope I haven't upset you. I just get the feeling that is the reason Sheila and Jeremy left home in their early teens. Jeremy left home at 16 and only lived at WHF for 3 months since he was 16...I'm not sure what age Sheila left home, but she was living with Colin from being 17...

april I would love to ask you a few questions, but I wouldn't want to offend you...

[Jane]

There is always two sides patti, June did rule end of, i dont know if jeremy is a man of religion then and now,my gut feeling he was not because if he was he would recieve the same stern bible bashing sheila and the boys did, sheila did believe and that left her open to the wrath of june.

Mertol, I suspect, in the case where there are two children and the mother exerts control over one, the other gets let off the hook, yet rather than seeing it as a good thing, it often results in the child feeling ignored and uncared for.

[Nuala]

I think also colin had little regard for june ,  patti has mentioned a page or two from the book  about them sunbathing nude yet when they got back to the house nevill saw the funny side of it, is it possible colin had had enough of june rather than sheila ?

What an astute insight, Mertol.