Philip Ziegler

Highbrows and eyebrows

issue 16 June 2012

Juliet Nicolson is a member of a literary dynasty second in productivity only to the Pakenhams. She is herself the author of two distinguished volumes of social history describing Britain immediately before and immediately after the first world war. This is her first novel.

The danger of letting a social historian write novels is that the social history is likely to lie rather heavily upon the narrative.

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