The Fall of the House of Montagu

The Montagu story provides enough diverting specificities - bankruptcy, gambling dens and colonial exile - to make this a dramatic and pathos-inducing read * New Statesman *Ably demonstrates how rapidly a grand inheritance can be eroded by poor decisions but sketches in the historical challenges such estates faced too * Telegraph *My jaw kept dropping as I devoured Robert Wainwright’s wonderfully racy biography, full of comedy and tragedy and populated by some of the most dissolute and eccentric aristocrats of the 20th century – Ysenda Maxtone Graham * Daily Mail, on ENID *As social history Sheila Chisholm’s life is fascinating… it’s undeniably enjoyable to read of all that glitter and gold – Selina Hastings * Daily Mail, on SHEILA *Jolly gossipy reading, easily digested * The Telegraph, on NELLIE *[A] lively chronicle…paints a memorable picture of how post-war British aristocrats had to adapt or die – Ysenda Maxtone Graham * Daily Mail *

Robert Wainwright has worked as a journalist for over 30 years and is the author of fourteen books, including Enid, Sheila and The Maverick Mountaineer, which won The Times Biography of the Year prize at the British Sports Book Awards in 2017. He lives in London.