Review: Barbara Frum
Submitted by Jennifer on September 18, 2009 – 2:24 pmOne Comment
Linda Frum
Barbara Frum: A Daughter’s Memoir
Ballantine Books (1997)
Grade: C
Too sentimental an attempt, this poorly assembled remembrance of the Canadian broadcasting icon by her daughter is effective neither as a memoir nor as a biography. Former journalist and now senator, Linda Frum, bravely tells this story of her mother’s life through a patchwork of chapters covering mostly the private life of a public person. A well-intentioned homage that reads more like an expose.
[...] during the same time period and supping with big wigs like the late Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Barbara Frum (1937 – 1992) and Christina McCall (1935 – 2005) seem never to have met, if you were to base your information [...]