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Every family has secrets, but Juliet Nicolson’s antecedents had some pretty famous — if badly kept — ones. This makes her ideally suited to this fascinating hybrid of memoir and social history.
The juiciest details about her bisexual grandparents, Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, and her shame-hamstrung parents, Philippa and Nigel Nicolson, have already been explored in her memoir A House Full of Daughters. But here the author transforms the highly personal into something universal.
