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and former advisor to Margaret Thatcher
Just as Proust wrote autobiography posing as acute social history, David Pryce-Jones has written a moving, gripping, powerful and occasionally very funny social history of his truly extraordinary family which poses as an autobiography. (It comes as no surprise that Proust’s Swann was in part based on Pryce-Jones’s grandfather.) Employing his trademark epigrammatic wit, searing honesty and profound capacity for self-evaluation, Pryce-Jones has produced a masterpiece of the genre.
ANDREW ROBERTS
best-selling author of The Storm of War,
Masters and Commanders, and Hitler and Churchill