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The Perfect Summer: England 1911, Just Before the Storm

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The Perfect Summer chronicles a glorious English summer a century ago when the world was on the cusp of irrevocable change. Through the tight lens of four months, Juliet Nicolson’s rich storytelling gifts rivet us with the sights, colors, and feelings of a bygone era. That summer of 1911 a new king was crowned and the aristocracy was at play, bounding from one house party to the next. But perfection was not for all. Cracks in the social fabric were showing. The country was brought to a standstill by industrial strikes. Temperatures rose steadily to more than 100 degrees; by August deaths from heatstroke were too many for newspapers to report. Drawing on material from intimate and rarely seen sources and narrated through the eyes of a series of exceptional individuals — among them a debutante, a choirboy, a politician, a trade unionist, a butler, and the Queen — The Perfect Summer is a vividly rendered glimpse of the twilight of the Edwardian era.

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From: Amazon Posted: Jun 26, 2008 Type: User Review Not what it could have been

This book tries to paint a vivid picture of a "moment in time." It fails. There are good parts of course, but also stupid inaccuracies [i.e. the "Ancient" Ceremony of Investiture of the Prince of Wales.] For someone as wonderfully well connected...
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From: Amazon Posted: Jun 24, 2008 Type: User Review Who can resist anecdotes about Society Folk (even when they're fools)?

In our secret hearts, many of us imagine that we belong elsewhere --- say, in England, at a great country estate, in good weather, where we enjoy every luxury because we are rich and titled.

And why not, say, in May of 1911? Edward...
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From: Amazon Posted: Dec 03, 2007 Type: User Review Disappointing and superficial

This is a book that simply doesn't work, much as its author knows about the period. She introduces historical "characters" as if we will be following some sort of narrative about them, then simply drops them after an extensive description and one...
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From: Amazon Posted: Oct 18, 2007 Type: User Review Awful

This was one of my Book Club's suggestions and I ready it and didn't enjoy it at all. The author is a relative of some of the persons in the book, so there was a lot of "name dropping". I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
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From: Amazon Posted: Sep 16, 2007 Type: User Review Edwardian social history

Examination of the summer months of 1911, the Coronation Summer of King George V. The author's style can be somewhat plodding, and there a few noticable errors of fact. For example, Queen Mary's Aunt Augusta was nearly 89, not 85, in June of...
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