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 *
Surprisingly affecting... impressively understated... remarkably sad -- Dominic Sandbrook * Sunday Times *
This is a book about how a family survives emotional dramas and difficulties down the generations, and at what cost... Not long ago such difficulties used not to be spoken, much less written about; Nigel Nicolson himself, in 1974, took one of the first steps in breaking that taboo... His daughter now takes honesty about family matters much further. In writing this highly entertaining account, she shows exceptional emotional resilience -- Anne Chisholm * Spectator *
Brilliant, incisive exploration of seven generations of women... A riveting read... This is an elegantly written meditation on family, identity and the impact of the past. -- Juanita Coulson * Lady *
In historian Juliet Nicolson's story of seven generations of her family, it's refreshing to find the women take centre stage... for so many generations, the birth of a daughter was a disappointment, but Nicolson redresses the balance -- Charlotte Heathcote * Sunday Express *
Poignant and courageous * Sunday Telegraph *
This is Juliet Nicolson's own truth, courageously shared -- Victoria Glendinning * Oldie *
Strikingly lucid, brave and generous -- Sue Gaisford * Tablet *
This is the mesmerising, seven-generations saga of the strong women in Juliet Nicolson's family -- Iain Finlayson * Saga Magazine *
Alongside vivid portraits of Pepita, Victoria and Vita, Nicolson delivers a magnificently clear-eyed view of her mother... Lovely, elegant book, painstakingly unsentimental. -- Nick Curtis * Radio Times *
She examines the pride, passion, resentment, emotional neglect, addiction and loss, and recognizes them in her own life... a treat * Psychologies *
