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A House Full of Daughters
Juliet Nicolson
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Description for A House Full of Daughters
Paperback. 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. This book takes us through seven generations of women. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: BG; BK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 25. Weight in Grams: 262.
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-siecle 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 ... Read more
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-siecle 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099598039
SKU
V9780099598039
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Ref
99-98
About Juliet Nicolson
Juliet Nicolson is the author of two works of history, The Great Silence: 1918-1920 Living in the Shadow of the Great War and The Perfect Summer: Dancing into Shadow in 1911, and a novel, Abdication. As the granddaughter of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson and the daughter of Nigel Nicolson she is part of a renowned and much scrutinised family ... Read more
Reviews for A House Full of Daughters
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more