Jennie Churchill, 9781474615174
Paperback
Scandalous life, devoted mother, powerful son: a tragic infatuation.

Jennie Churchill

winston's american mother

$45.79

  • Paperback

    432 pages

  • Release Date

    25 November 2019

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Summary

Jennie Churchill: A Mother’s Love, A Son’s Destiny

Jennie Churchill, rumored to have had two hundred lovers and three husbands, held unwavering love for her son, Winston. JENNIE CHURCHILL offers an intimate portrayal of her dazzling yet ultimately tragic life, highlighting the powerful mutual infatuation between mother and son. To truly understand Winston, one must begin here, with this revelatory interpretation.

Anne Sebba, with unprecedented access to private fami…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781474615174
ISBN-10:1474615171
Author:Anne Sebba
Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
Imprint:Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:432
Release Date:25 November 2019
Weight:296g
Dimensions:198mm x 128mm x 34mm
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Critics Review

Sharp and intelligent… An immensely enjoyable book. [Sebba’s] prose is as smooth and elegant as expensive cashmere; it reads like a novel

Sharp and intelligent… An immensely enjoyable book. [Sebba’s] prose is as smooth and elegant as expensive cashmere; it reads like a novel - Literary Review

Retrieving Jennie Churchill in sparkling three dimensions… Sebba’s biography does much to put flesh on the bones of a subject who has been reduced to a cipher for American brashness - Daily Telegraph

About The Author

Anne Sebba

Anne Sebba is a historian and one of Britain’s most distinguished biographers who began her career as a Reuters correspondent based in London and Rome. She has written eleven works of non-fiction, mostly about iconic twentieth-century women, which have been translated into several languages including French, Polish, Czech, Japanese and Chinese. She makes regular television and radio appearances and has presented two BBC radio documentaries about musicians. She is the author of the international bestseller That Woman, an acclaimed biography of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, and the prize-winning Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died Under Nazi Occupation. Her most recent book, Ethel Rosenberg: The Short Life and Great Betrayal of an American Wife and Mother, was shortlisted for the Wingate Prize. Anne is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research and trustee of the National Archives Trust. She lives in London.

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