House Full Of Daughters

Nicolson, Juliet

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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, her mother’s Tory-conventional background. But then Juliet, a renowned 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.

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Publish Date: 23/02/2017

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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-siècle 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

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Weight 258 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 21 mm
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Cover

Paperback

Pages

326 , 16 unnumbered of plates

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K