The Perfect Summer by Juliet Nicolson
The Perfect Summer chronicles a glorious English summer a century ago when the world was on the cusp of irrevocable change. Through the tight lens of four months, Juliet Nicolson's rich storytelling gifts rivet us with the sights, colors, and feelings of a bygone era. That summer of 1911 a new king was crowned and the aristocracy was at play, bounding from one house party to the next. But perfection was not for all. Cracks in the social fabric were showing. The country was brought to a standstill by industrial strikes. Temperatures rose steadily to more than 100 degrees; by August deaths from heatstroke were too many for newspapers to report. Drawing on material from intimate and rarely seen sources and narrated through the eyes of a series of exceptional individuals -- among them a debutante, a choirboy, a politician, a trade unionist, a butler, and the Queen -- The Perfect Summer is a vividly rendered glimpse of the twilight of the Edwardian era.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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780802143679 |
| ISBN 10 | 0802143679 |
| Title | The Perfect Summer |
| Author | Juliet Nicolson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press |
| Year published | 2008-05-13 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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