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- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
15 May 2017
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099598039 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099598035 |
| Author: | Juliet Nicolson |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 15 May 2017 |
| Weight: | 264g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 22mm |
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Critics Review
Shocking and brave… Nicolson’s anger, tenderness and insight have resulted in an exceptionally moving book
Shocking 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 *
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 *
A marvelous writer, with a wonderful eye for detail * New York Times Book Review *
Wonderful – Mark Mason * Daily Mail *
Nicolson’s aim in her meditative contribution to Nicolson studies is not so much to chronicle…as to search for patterns in the intergenerational weave… A fascinating social document. – D.J. Taylor * The Times *
About The Author
Juliet Nicolson
Juliet Nicolson is the bestselling author of three works of social history: The Perfect Summer - Dancing into Shadow in 1911; The Great Silence - 1918-1920 Living in the Shadow of the Great War; 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 is a mother and a grandmother and lives with her husband in East Sussex.
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