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Chronicling four months during 1911, an evocative portrait of an English society on the brink of turbulent change describes such milestones as the crowning of a new king, strikes that paralyzed British industry, and the first London appearance of the Ballets Russes, from the viewpoints of a debutante, a suffragette, a trade unionist, a butler, a politician, the queen, and others. 25,000 first printing.
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'An accomplished and engaging piece of social history' (Daily Telegraph)
'[Nicolson] sweeps across voices and classes to assemble a mosaic of sunlit impressions' (Independent: Boyd Tonkin)
Listed as number three of six in the 'Bookseller's Chart' by Phoebe Bentick of Henry Stokes & Co. (The Times)
'With the gifts of a great storyteller, [Nicolson] rekindles a vision of a time when the sun shone, but cast long shadows.' (Waterstone's Books Quarterly)
"Nicolson on swimwear from Victorian times through Brigitte Bardot to today. " (The Spectator)
'Juliet Nicolson has taken this "perfect summer" as the backdrop for an ambitious work of multiple biography, which sets the extravagance of the upper classes against the increasingly desperate lives of the poor.' (Observer)
'I wanted to evoke the full vivid richness of how it smelt, looked, sounded, tasted and felt to be alive in England during the months of such a summer' (The Lady)
'Juliet Nicolson does not pretend to offer a close political analysis, but rather a thoroughly entertaining portrait of the period, full of memorable detail' (The Spectator)
'There is an unpretentious directness about Nicolson's approach to her subjects that gives the book a freshness and vitality. Happily, she also has an eye for the amusing or the ironic.' (The Scotsman, Rachel Billington)
'A fascinating read... I did indeed feel transported' (Mail on Sunday: Antonia Fraser)
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'[Nicolson] sweeps across voices and classes to assemble a mosaic of sunlit impressions' (Independent: Boyd Tonkin)
Listed as number three of six in the 'Bookseller's Chart' by Phoebe Bentick of Henry Stokes & Co. (The Times)
'With the gifts of a great storyteller, [Nicolson] rekindles a vision of a time when the sun shone, but cast long shadows.' (Waterstone's Books Quarterly)
"Nicolson on swimwear from Victorian times through Brigitte Bardot to today. " (The Spectator)
'Juliet Nicolson has taken this "perfect summer" as the backdrop for an ambitious work of multiple biography, which sets the extravagance of the upper classes against the increasingly desperate lives of the poor.' (Observer)
'I wanted to evoke the full vivid richness of how it smelt, looked, sounded, tasted and felt to be alive in England during the months of such a summer' (The Lady)
'Juliet Nicolson does not pretend to offer a close political analysis, but rather a thoroughly entertaining portrait of the period, full of memorable detail' (The Spectator)
'There is an unpretentious directness about Nicolson's approach to her subjects that gives the book a freshness and vitality. Happily, she also has an eye for the amusing or the ironic.' (The Scotsman, Rachel Billington)
'A fascinating read... I did indeed feel transported' (Mail on Sunday: Antonia Fraser)
The enchanting and absorbing story of a remarkable season; defining a world on the cusp of irrevocable change
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- PublisherGrove Pr
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0802118461
- ISBN 13 9780802118462
- BindingHardcover
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- Number of pages290
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