Abdication - Softcover

Nicolson, Juliet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1451664796 ISBN 13: 9781451664799

Publisher: Washington Square Pr, 2013

Synopsis

In a tale set against a backdrop of pre-World War II turbulence in England and Edward VIII's scandalous affair, a fatherless chauffeur shares an undeclared love with a complex Oxford undergraduate, a housekeeper hides her Nazi sympathies and a woman struggles with escalating tensions in her friendship with Wallace Simpson.

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Review:

Elegantly poignant ... Nicolson has an eye for prescient anecdotes * Ruth Scurr, The Times on The Perfect Summer: Dancing Into Shadow in 1911 * [Nicolson] sweeps across voices and classes to assemble a mosaic of sunlit impressions * Boyd Tonkin, Independent * An accomplished and engaging piece of social history * Daily Telegraph * This is a peach of a book. It is full of good things, sparkling, elegant and often funny * Jane Ridley, Literary Review *

Book Description:

From critically acclaimed historian Juliet Nicolson, a novel of a King and country torn between private desire and public duty on the eve of the Second World War

About this edition

• Publisher: Washington Square Pr
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1451664796
• ISBN 13: 9781451664799
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344