Blood & Marriage: from Kingston-upon-hull to the First Genocide of the 20th Century

"Blood & Marriage" is the story of a (real) family in exile, roughly between the years 1860 and 1960, and it is about what happens when nationalities collide, interests conflict, racial prejudices flare, and wars break out.

Have you ever tried to trace back your family, and then been left with only names, and no idea of who your relatives really were, what they did, or how they behaved?

And yet, living through world wars, genocides, great joys and lost loves, they must have thought and felt something.

This is Tim Roux's answer to the problem. He has taken a revolutionary approach to genealogy by allowing members of his family to describe their experiences in a kaleidoscope of time and observations. He has then treated the whole story as a fiction, because who can be sure of the facts?

"Blood & Marriage has been widely praised for its mastery in navigating its complex structure so compellingly, for drawing the events of the past irresistibly into the present, and for raising issues which anyone can identify with.