A House Full of Daughters

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Shocking and brave... Nicolson's anger, tenderness and insight have resulted in an exceptionally moving book I couldn't put it down... Enthralling, touching and beautifully written Original and illuminating… A House Full of Daughters gallops through seven generations with confidence and ease: it is funny in parts, painful in others but always honest. Tense, highly personal and beautifully written... A powerful and moving family portrait Candid, poignant, well-written and wonderfully life-affirming The most enjoyable book to take on holiday would undoubtedly be Juliet Nicolson’s A House Full of Daughters . It combines history with memoir in a way that both historians and memoirists should envy 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. A marvelous writer, with a wonderful eye for detail Wonderful 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. Expand reviews