The Perfect Summer
Dancing into Shadow in 1911
$43.88
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
11 July 2007
Summary
One summer of nearly a hundred years ago saw one of the high sunlit meadows of English history. A new king was crowned; audiences swarmed to Covent Garden to see the Ballet Russes and Nijinsky’s gravity-defying leaps. The aristocracy was at play, bounding from house party to the next; the socialite Lady Michelham travelled with her nineteen yards of pearls. Rupert Brooke (a 23-year-old poet in love with love, Keats, marrons glaces and truth) swam in the river at Grantchester.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780719562433 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0719562430 |
| Author: | Juliet Nicolson |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 11 July 2007 |
| Weight: | 257g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 26mm |
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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 TonkinListed as number three of six in the ‘Bookseller’s Chart’ by Phoebe Bentick of Henry Stokes & Co. - The TimesWith the gifts of a great storyteller, [Nicolson] rekindles a vision of a time when the sun shone, but cast long shadows. - Waterstone’s Books QuarterlyNicolson on swimwear from Victorian times through Brigitte Bardot to today. - The SpectatorJuliet 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. - ObserverI 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 LadyJuliet Nicolson does not pretend to offer a close political analysis, but rather a thoroughly entertaining portrait of the period, full of memorable detail - The SpectatorAbout The Author
Juliet Nicolson
Juliet Nicolson is a writer and journalist: she has written for the Daily Telegraph, Vogue, the London Evening Standard, Tatler and the Guardian, amongst others. She was also the editor of the memoirs of Lady Annabel Goldsmith. She read English at the University of Oxford and has worked in publishing in both the UK and the States. The Perfect Summer is Juliet’s first book, and draws on a vast range of archive material from sources both intimate and rarely-seen. She is the President of the Kent Branch of the Jane Austen Society, has two daughters and lives in London and Kent.
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