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Coming Up Trumps: A Memoir

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Description for Coming Up Trumps: A Memoir hardcover. A riveting memoir from Lady Trumpington, doyenne of the House of Lords, taking her from 1920s London to the beginning of her political career in the early 1960s Num Pages: 256 pages, 16pp b/w bound as 2 x 8. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; BGHA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 144 x 25. Weight in Grams: 424.

The Top Ten Sunday Times bestseller.

In this characteristically trenchant memoir, the indomitable Jean Trumpington looks back on her long and remarkable life. The daughter of an officer in the Bengal Lancers and an American heiress, Jean Campbell-Harris was born into a world of considerable privilege, but the Wall Street Crash entirely wiped out her mother's fortune.

Leaving school at fifteen, without ever taking an exam, the young Jean Campbell-Harris was sent to Paris to study art and both French and German, but two years later, with the outbreak of the Second World War, she became a land girl - ... Read more

Forthright, witty and deliciously opinionated, Coming Up Trumps is a wonderfully readable account of a life very well lived.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
PAN Macmillan Adult
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447256779
SKU
9781447256779
Shipping Time
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Ref
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About Trumpington
Jean Trumpington was born Jean Alys Campbell-Harris in 1922, the daughter of an officer in the 7th Hariana Lancers, who became aide-de-camp to the Viceroy of India, and an American heiress. Educated privately, she left school aged fifteen having never taken an exam. With the outbreak of the Second World War, she became first a land girl and then worked ... Read more

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