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22%OFFStefan Buczacki - My Darling Mr Asquith: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Venetia Stanley - 9780993418600 - V9780993418600
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My Darling Mr Asquith: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Venetia Stanley

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Description for My Darling Mr Asquith: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Venetia Stanley Hardcover. .
This is the true story of one woman's life set against the backcloth of the great events of the first half of the twentieth century. Its subject, the Hon Venetia Stanley was remarkable for what she was, what she did and the people she knew. So it is a tale that embraces politics, sex, scandal, love and betrayal, the English aristocracy, the Asquiths and the Churchills, but also touches on strange (and some very strange) goings on in the social world of society in the 1920s and 1930s, homosexuality in high places, cross-dressing, gardening, the power of money, derring-do, ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Cato & Clarke
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
Stratford-Upon-Avon, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780993418600
SKU
V9780993418600
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99-1

About Stefan Buczacki
Stefan Buczacki is one of the most experienced non-fiction authors in the country having published around sixty titles with major publishers over more than thirty years. He is also an experienced broadcaster, probably most familiar for his twelve unbroken years as panellist and chairman on Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time but has presented, contributed to or written around two ... Read more

Reviews for My Darling Mr Asquith: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Venetia Stanley
'I gained great pleasure and interest from this sympathetic yet penetrating study of the woman who played such a significant part in Asquith's life with some remarkable consequences for her own.' Philip Ziegler; 'I knew Venetia well and loved her dearly. Stefan Buczacki has, quite brilliantly, brought her back to life. For anyone interested in the social and political world ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for My Darling Mr Asquith: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Venetia Stanley


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