Memoir
In 1984 Angelica Garnett published her memoir, Deceived with Kindness: A Bloomsbury Childhood. The book was direct and sharply critical in its description of her upbringing and relationship with her parents, revealing Bloombury's rather conventional inability to confront deep personal feelings. In those characteristics it was a departure from much of the coverage the Bloomsbury Group had received up to that time. In it Garnett wrote, "My dream of the perfect father — unrealized — possessed me, and has done so for the rest of my life. My marriage was but a continuation of it, and almost engulfed me."The memoir was awarded the J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography in 1985.
Garnett was the author of a second memoir, The Eternal Moment (1998), and published a volume of autobiographical fiction entitled The Unspoken Truth: A Quartet of Bloomsbury Stories (2010). At the time of her death she had been working on an autobiography.
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