The perfect summer
England 1911, just before the storm
by Juliet Nicolson
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Before the Great War tore England apart and changed the way people lived forever, there was the glorious summer of 1911, when the country seemed full of promise and blissfully unaware of the coming storm. The Perfect Summer is Juliet Nicolson's portrait of that sunlit season, transporting us to a time nearly a century ago to experience the sights, sounds, and feelings of a society on the brink of a changing world. Drawing on rarely seen sources from royal and private archives, Nicolson reconstructs the lives of many key individuals and events in brilliant novelistic detail. Nicolson brings the brittle beauty of that portentous summer into crisp focus, giving us both an unusual insight into the varieties of existence, from Queen to suffragette, as well as the story of how, day by cloudless day, a nation began to lose its innocence. - Jacket flap.
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The perfect summer: dancing into shadow : England in 1911
2007, Grove Press
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The Perfect Summer: England 1911, Just Before the Storm
May 10, 2007, Grove Press
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The perfect summer: England 1911, just before the storm
2006, Grove Press, Distributed by Publishers Group West
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in English
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Originally published: London : John Murray, 2006
Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-276) and index
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