Two Flamboyant Fathers: A Memoir

Steve Newman Writer
4 min readApr 11, 2021

Nicolette Devas

Image: bannerbooks. The cover portraits are by Nicolette

Some years ago, in a second-hand bookshop, I came across Two Flamboyant Fathers, written in 1966 by Nicolette Devas, which is a book that defies categorization.

It’s basically a memoir, and a very funny memoir at that, and above all else it’s extremely well written.

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