In 1951 Michael Jenkins, then 14 years old, spent the summer with ‘the aunts in Flanders’. His ‘aunts’ were a group of elderly women whose connection to his family had never been explained but they immediately embraced him and he quickly became entwined in the lives of an extended family of aunts, uncles and cousins.
The warmth of their life awakes Michael to the complicated world of relationships as he falls in love for the first time. Michael Jenkins’s vivid memoir of a summer that changed his life has become a much-loved classic, with its evocative portraits of his aunts, the raw memories of two world wars that still scar the Flanders plain and Michael’s unraveling of the secret at the heart of this family.
About the author
Michael Jenkins had a long career as a senior diplomat. He was Deputy Secretary-General of the European Commission and served as the British Ambassador to the Netherlands from 1988 to 1993, among other postings. He was knighted in 1990 and died in 2013.
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