A House Full of Daughters by Juliet Nicolson
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 come from
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 *
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 *
Juliet Nicolson is the bestselling author of three works of social history, The Perfect Summer: Dancing into Shadow in 1911; The Great Silence: 1918-1920 Living in the Shadow of the Great War; and Frostquake: The frozen winter of 1962 and how Britain emerged a different country; as well as a family memoir, A House Full of Daughters. She is a mother and a grandmother and lives with her husband in East Sussex.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099598039 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099598035 |
| Title | A House Full of Daughters |
| Author | Juliet Nicolson |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2017-02-23 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2016 (UK) |
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