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[quote=Anonymous]Have you read The Spainish Bride by Georgette Heyer?  It’s a legit historically accurate romance novel, albeit just a biography of a fraction of one person’s life, not a whole life or family history.

In a different vein entirely, Hidden Valley Road is a family history of a family with 12 kids in the 50s where the 6 of the 12 developed schizophrenia.  It’s more biography mixed with pop science but it’s very good and I really appreciate that the author considers the family’s various experiences with sincere kindness.

The Mask of Apollo by Mary Renault is a really good fictionalized biography of Greek poet Simonides, childhood to old age.  I haven’t read it in years but I loved it when I was younger.  She also has a series on Alexander the Great that I think has more inter generational content but I haven’t read it so I’m not 100% sure.

This is absolutely historical fiction, and probably longer than you’re looking for, but the two Dorothy Dunnet series (Lymond and Niccolo) cover a European family over at least a century and many countries and are amazingly written.[/quote]

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