A House Full of Daughters by Juliet Nicolson

A House Full of Daughters by Juliet Nicolson

A family memoir that traces the myths, legends, and secrets of seven generations of remarkable women

All families have their myths and legends. For many years Juliet Nicolson accepted hers--the dangerous beauty of her flamenco dancing great-great-grandmother Pepita, the flirty manipulation of her great-grandmother Victoria, the infamous eccentricity of her grandmother Vita Sackville-West, her mother's Tory-conventional background. But then Juliet, a distinguished historian, started to question. As she did so, she sifted fact from fiction, uncovering details and secrets long held just out of sight.

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 D.C., an English boarding school during the Second World War, Chelsea in the 1960s, the knife-edge that was New York City in the 1980s, 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.

A House Full of Daughters is one woman's investigation into the nature of family, memory, and the past. As Juliet finds uncomfortable patterns reflected in these distant and more recent versions of herself, she realizes her challenge is to embrace the good and reject the hazards that have trapped past generations.

Juliet Nicolson is the author of The Great Silence: 1918-1920 Living in the Darkness of the Great War and The Perfect Summer: Dancing into Shadow in 1911, as well as Abdication, a fiction. She is the granddaughter of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, and the daughter of Nigel Nicolson, and the latest in a long line of record-keepers. She and her husband live in East Sussex, not far from Sissinghurst, where she grew up. Clemmie while Flora are her two daughters, and Imogen is her granddaughter.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780374536985
ISBN 10	0374536988
Title	A House Full of Daughters
Author	Juliet Nicolson
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Year published	2017-06-20
Number of pages	336
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.