Juliet Nicolson: 4 books
A House Full of Daughters
A Memoir of Seven Generations
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
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...
Abdication
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
“Goodness, Abdication really is good. I’m in awe of Juliet’s ability” (Jessica Fellowes, New York Times bestselling author of The World of Downton Abbey).
England, 1936.
A beloved king is dead, and by year’s end, the charismatic new monarch will give up his throne for love....
The Great Silence
Britain from the Shadow of the First World War to the Dawn of the Jazz Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
This account of British life in the wake of World War I is “social history at its very best . . . insightful and utterly absorbing” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune).
As the euphoria of Armistice Day in 1918 quickly subsided, there was no denying the carnage that the Great War had left in its...
The Perfect Summer
England 1911, Just Before the Storm
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2008
A “sparkling social history” that brings the twilight of the Edwardian era to life (Entertainment Weekly).
The Perfect Summer chronicles a glorious English summer just over a century ago, when the world was on the cusp of irrevocable change. That summer of 1911, a new king was crowned and...