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“Dazzling…..there is an exhilarating narrative sweep that takes the story across the centuries, but above all there is a unity of theme and place that roots it in English history and the English landscape….This is an enviably good book” THE SPECTATOR “Clever, moving and put together with expert craftsmanship, THE GENTRY is the most enjoyable book I’ve read this year” FINANCIAL TIMES “Masterly….. a wonderfully evocative work of historical rehabilitation” SUNDAY TELEGRAPH “A consummate writer and keen-eyed reader of landscape, Nicolson gives us mouth-watering descriptions…a fantastic book”. TIME OUT “[Nicolson] paints a fascinating picture of forced marriages, violent deaths, corruption, loyalties, betrayals and, ultimately, a lost way of life… the book has flashes of insight and empathy to remind us that each family had its own individual dramas as well as being symbols of their time.” DAILY MAIL “Nicolson’s fascinating and brilliantly written examination of the gentry across seven centuries….creates a vivid portrait gallery of a class at the heart of English society …..wonderfully readable” SUNDAY TIMES

dazzling!..there is an exhilarating narrative sweep that takes the story across the centuries, but above all there is a unity of theme and place that roots it in English history and the English landscape!.This is an enviably good book THE SPECTATOR Nicolson is absolutely the perfect person to capture all this. He has a feeling for land and for tradition.!I was willingly swept along by his torrent of overblown romanticism!The other great strength of the book is the new path it beats through six centuries of English rural history!.Clever, moving and put together with expert craftsmanship, THE GENTRY is the most enjoyable book I've read this year FINANCIAL TIMES fascinating and brilliantly written!this book is a wonderfully readable memorial to (the Gentry) SUNDAY TIMES masterly!.. a wonderfully evocative work of historical rehabilitation SUNDAY TELEGRAPH A consummate writer and keen-eyed reader of landscape, Nicolson gives us mouth-watering descriptions!a fantastic book . TIME OUT Adam Nicolson has that rare ability to pluck people from the pages of the past and transform them into living, breathing figures!.the author, whose skill as a writer has allowed him to unfold these lives!..and to describe their loves and fears with a well-judged elegance that make his book a complete pleasure to read COUNTRY LIFE

Dazzling...there is an exhilarating narrative sweep that takes the story across the centuries, but above all there is a unity of theme and place that roots it in English history and the English landscape...This is an enviably good book THE SPECTATOR Clever, moving and put together with expert craftsmanship, THE GENTRY is the most enjoyable book I've read this year FINANCIAL TIMES Masterly... a wonderfully evocative work of historical rehabilitation SUNDAY TELEGRAPH A consummate writer and keen-eyed reader of landscape, Nicolson gives us mouth-watering descriptions...a fantastic book . TIME OUT

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Adam Nicolson is the author of many books on history, travel and the environment. He is winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and the British Topography Prize and lives on at Sissinghust Castle in Kent. His most recent book for HarperCollins is Sissinghurst, a wonderful and personal biography of a place – the story of a heritage, of a vision of connecting once more buildings and garden, fields and farms and of how that dream was realised.

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