Reviews

"A brilliant book about the extraordinary and eccentric Tennant family."

"A wonderful book about the kind of wildly original and brilliant family that only a writer as original and brilliant as Emma Tennant could have survived and describe."

"Emma Tennant's memoir reads like the account of a young girl's dream -- a castle, secret rooms, overheard conversations, a brilliant harried prime minister and his formidable wife, Margot Asquith, as well as an entire generation of prince charmings..."