A Daughter's Tale
The Memoir of Winston and Clementine Churchill's youngest child
$34.17
- Paperback
560 pages
- Release Date
3 December 2012
Summary
The charming memoir of Winston Churchill’s only surviving daughter
At ninety years old, Mary Soames is the only surviving child of Winston and Clementine Churchill. A Daughter’s Tale follows her early life from an idyllic childhood in her own ‘Garden of Eden’ at Chartwell to her ATS service in mixed anti-aircraft batteries during the war. With glimpses into her fascinating personal diary, published here for the first time, she draws us into a world where the experiences of a …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780552770927 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0552770922 |
| Author: | Mary Soames |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Black Swan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 560 |
| Release Date: | 3 December 2012 |
| Weight: | 424g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 127mm x 34mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
Perceptive, funny, always totally honest.
Perceptive, funny, always totally honest. – Philip Ziegler * The Spectator *
An entertaining memoir – Aline Reed * Sunday Express *
a nostalgic memoir of a happy childhood in a vanished age * Telegraph *
About The Author
Mary Soames
Mary Soames (1922-2014) was the youngest child of Winston and Clementine Churchill. She was brought up at Chartwell in Kent and, aged eighteen, joined the ATS and served in mixed anti-aircraft batteries in England and Europe. She accompanied her father as his ADC on several of his wartime overseas journeys. In 1945 she was awarded the MBE (military). In 1947, she married Captain Christopher Soames, Coldstream Guards, later Lord Soames, PC, GCMG, CH. In 1998 she edited the private correspondence between her parents, Speaking for Themselves, completely revised and updated the celebrated biography of her mother, Clementine Churchill, in 2002 and completed her own autobiography, A Daughter’s Tale, in 2011.
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