Free Delivery Over $100
|
|
|||
|
||||
Awards
OverviewOne woman's investigation into the nature of memory, the past, and above all, love One woman's investigation into the nature of memory, the past, and above all, love. All families have their myths and Juliet Nicolson's was no different- her flamenco dancing great-great-grandmother Pepita, the flirty manipulation of her great-grandmother Victoria, the infamous eccentricity of her grandmother Vita, her mother's Tory-conventional background. A House Full of Daughters takes us through seven generations of women. In the nineteenth-century slums of Malaga, the salons of fin-de-si cle Washington DC, an English boarding school during the Second World War, Chelsea in the 1960s, these women emerge for Juliet as people in their own right, but also as part of who she is and where she has come from Full Product DetailsAuthor: Juliet NicolsonPublisher: Vintage Publishing Imprint: Vintage Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 19.70cm Weight: 0.261kg ISBN: 9780099598039ISBN 10: 0099598035 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 23 February 2017 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsShocking and brave... Nicolson's anger, tenderness and insight have resulted in an exceptionally moving book -- Miranda Seymour * Daily Telegraph * I couldn't put it down... Enthralling, touching and beautifully written -- Joanna Lumley Original and illuminating... A House Full of Daughters gallops through seven generations with confidence and ease: it is funny in parts, painful in others but always honest. -- Andrea Wulf * Guardian * Tense, highly personal and beautifully written... A powerful and moving family portrait -- Christena Appleyard * Literary Review * Candid, poignant, well-written and wonderfully life-affirming -- Sebastian Shakespeare * Tatler * The most enjoyable book to take on holiday would undoubtedly be Juliet Nicolson's A House Full of Daughters . It combines history with memoir in a way that both historians and memoirists should envy -- Lady Antonia Fraser Observer Best Holiday Reads 2016 Shocking and brave... Nicolson's anger, tenderness and insight have resulted in an exceptionally moving book -- Miranda Seymour Daily Telegraph In prose that is lyrical and sometimes self-lacerating, she anatomises the failures of love and attention, none the less destructive for being inadvertent, from which these husbands, wives, parents and children, suffered so acutely ... Lent grace by Nicolson's lustrous prose, and by the redemptive hope that love and forgiveness will free the latest generations from the baleful patterns of the past. -- Jane Shilling Evening Standard Candid, poignant, well-written and wonderfully life-affirming -- Sebastian Shakespeare Tatler A marvelous writer, with a wonderful eye for detail New York Times Book Review Candid, poignant, well-written and wonderfully life-affirming -- Sebastian Shakespeare * Tatler * Tense, highly personal and beautifully written... A powerful and moving family portrait -- Christena Appleyard * Literary Review * Original and illuminating... A House Full of Daughters gallops through seven generations with confidence and ease: it is funny in parts, painful in others but always honest. -- Andrea Wulf * Guardian * I couldn't put it down... Enthralling, touching and beautifully written -- Joanna Lumley Shocking and brave... Nicolson's anger, tenderness and insight have resulted in an exceptionally moving book -- Miranda Seymour * Daily Telegraph * Author InformationJuliet Nicolson is the bestselling author of three works of history, The Great Silence- 1918-1920 Living in the Shadow of the Great War; The Perfect Summer- Dancing into Shadow in 1911; and Frostquake- The frozen winter of 1962 and how Britain emerged a different country; as well as a family memoir, A House Full of Daughters. She lives with her husband in East Sussex, not far from Sissinghurst, where she spent her childhood. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
||||
