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Juliet Nicolson is the bestselling author of three works of social history, The Great Silence: 1918-1920 Living in the Shadow of the Great War; The Perfect Summer: Dancing into Shadow in 1911; and Frostquake: The frozen winter of 1962 and how Britain emerged a different country; as well as a family memoir, A House Full of Daughters. She is a mother and a grandmother and lives with her husband in East Sussex.Shocking and brave... Nicolson's anger, tenderness and insight have resulted in an exceptionally moving book
- Miranda Seymour, Daily Telegraph
I couldn't put it down... Enthralling, touching and beautifully written
- Joanna Lumley,
Original and illuminating… <i>A House Full of Daughters </i>gallops through seven generations with confidence and ease: it is funny in parts, painful in others but always honest.
- Andrea Wulf, Guardian
Tense, highly personal and beautifully written... A powerful and moving family portrait
- Christena Appleyard, Literary Review
Candid, poignant, well-written and wonderfully life-affirming
- Sebastian Shakespeare, Tatler
The most enjoyable book to take on holiday would undoubtedly be Juliet Nicolson’s <i>A House Full of Daughters</i><i> </i>. It combines history with memoir in a way that both historians and memoirists should envy
- Lady Antonia Fraser, Observer Best Holiday Reads 2016
In prose that is lyrical and sometimes self-lacerating, she anatomises the failures of love and attention, none the less destructive for being inadvertent, from which these husbands, wives, parents and children, suffered so acutely … Lent grace by Nicolson’s lustrous prose, and by the redemptive hope that love and forgiveness will free the latest generations from the baleful patterns of the past.
- Jane Shilling, Evening Standard
A marvelous writer, with a wonderful eye for detail
New York Times Book Review
Wonderful
- Mark Mason, Daily Mail
Nicolson’s aim in her meditative contribution to Nicolson studies is not so much to chronicle…as to search for patterns in the intergenerational weave… A fascinating social document.
- D.J. Taylor, The Times
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