A House Full of Daughters
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One woman's investigation into the nature of memory, the past, and above all, love
One woman's investigation into the nature of memory, the past, and above all, love.
All families have their myths and Juliet Nicolson's was no different- her flamenco dancing great-great-grandmother Pepita, the flirty manipulation of her great-grandmother Victoria, the infamous eccentricity of her grandmother Vita, her mother's Tory-conventional background.
A House Full of Daughters takes us through seven generations of women. In the nineteenth-century slums of Malaga, the salons of fin-de-si cle 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
Author: Juliet Nicolson
Format: Paperback, 336 pages, 128mm x 197mm, 259 g
Published: 2017, Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom
Genre: Biography: General
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One woman's investigation into the nature of memory, the past, and above all, love
One woman's investigation into the nature of memory, the past, and above all, love.
All families have their myths and Juliet Nicolson's was no different- her flamenco dancing great-great-grandmother Pepita, the flirty manipulation of her great-grandmother Victoria, the infamous eccentricity of her grandmother Vita, her mother's Tory-conventional background.
A House Full of Daughters takes us through seven generations of women. In the nineteenth-century slums of Malaga, the salons of fin-de-si cle 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
A House Full of Daughters