Their story is on one level as hard to put down as any of the fashionable French novels that were Caroline's favourite reading. Within its gripping narrative lies a wonderfully rich reconstruction of the world of the Hanoverian elite, its virtues and vices wittily and movingly related - Simon SchamaĪristocrats is a wonderful panorama of a book - Victoria Glendinning * Literary Review * The Lennox Sisters-great-granddaughters of a king, daughters of a cabinet minister, and wives of politicians and peers-lived lives of real public. /rebates/2fAristocrats-Stella-Tillyard2fbook2f411835&. Engrossing - Karen Robinson * Sunday Times *Ī dazzling achievement: an extraordinary story told by a phenomenally gifted writer.
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