Christena Appleyard

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A House Full of Daughters

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Love Like Salt: A Memoir

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Alive, Alive Oh! And Other Things That Matter

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Granta Books 144pp £12.99 order from our bookshop

Daughterhood is the subject matter of Juliet Nicolson’s tense, highly personal and beautifully written book. Nicolson is a historian and the daughter of the writer Nigel Nicolson. She spent much of her childhood in the magical surroundings of Sissinghurst. In her foreword, she shows that she is alert to any charges that the people who appear in this family history may be considered too privileged for their struggles to be taken seriously. ‘But’, she writes, ‘I wondered if wealth and class always amounted to privilege in a broader sense.’ 

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