Author(s): Jacqueline Kent

Biography

Like her famous brother Yehudi, Hephzibah Menuhin (1920-1981) was a child prodigy. But Hephzibah was the younger, and expected to be wife and mother. She escapes the controlling family, abandons her music, then also her new family in Melbourne, to eventually live in London. This is the story of an intelligent, spirited woman shadowed by fame.