About the Author

Anne de Courcy is the author of twelve widely acclaimed works of social history and biography, including THE FISHING FLEET: HUSBAND-HUNTING IN THE RAJ, THE VICEROY'S DAUGHTERS, DEBS AT WAR and 1939: THE LAST SEASON. She lives in London and Gloucestershire.

Reviews

Anne de Courcy is a skilled interviewer with a sure eye for the telling quotation or the stand-out detail - MAIL ON SUNDAYCompulsively readable, and immaculately researched ... popular social history at its very best - MAIL ON SUNDAYAnne de Courcy combines the perseverance of a social historian with the panache of a novelist - THE TIMES