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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 Nicolsons 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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Praise for The Perfect Summer:

Sharp and rangy... Nicolson sets a lively, theatrical pace and makes good use of recurring characters.... [There are] many glittering pieces in Nicolson

The New York Times Book Review

Edward VII had died the previous year, and England was peeking out from under the Victorian hem.... Nicolson captures it all, down to the frantic silliness and boredom of the upper classes; she has woven the details of those last days before the Great War into an unforgettable literary history.

Los Angeles Times

As page-turning as a novel.

Joanna Trollope, author of Marrying the Mistress and Next of Kin

Brilliant... lucid, entertaining, and fascinating.

William Boyd, author of Any Human Heart and Restless

A book brimming with delectable information and little-known facts... With a real eye for telling details, Nicolson manages to describe every stratum of English society.... Where Nicolson is especially good, however, is with the royals and the aristocracy, whose country estates, salons, entertainments, and affairsdiscreet and indiscreetshe describes with accuracy and humor.

The Providence Journal

The blistering-hot summer of 1911... saw the beginnings of the slide from arrogant innocence, for Britons of all classes, that would carry them all three years later into the exercise in mutual mass murder we call World War I.... Ms. Nicolson deftly picks a cast of characters that represents each stratum of society and how those issues broiled along with the weather.

The Washington Times

Sparkling social history... breezy yet informative... Juliet Nicolson has created the perfect beach reading for Anglophiles.

The Christian Science Monitor

Evocative, gossipy... profoundly moving... Pour yourself some champagne and revel in the sybaritic trivia that Ms. Nicolson lays out so invitingly before us.

New York Sun

Meticulous... Nicolson beautifully captures [the] fever pitch, when it was as if time was running out.... The Perfect Summer transcends national boundaries: readers dont have to be British to appreciate her talent. Through rich sensory detail and captivating language, Nicolsons prose has the power to transport anyone into 1911 England. The Harvard Book Review

Stunning... utterly compelling. Joanna Lumley

A hugely interesting portrait of a society teetering on a precipice both nationally and internationally. The Guardian (UK)

Deliciously evocative... Juliet Nicolson has fashioned for us a treasure-trove, doubly perfect for winter.

Simon Winchester, author of The Professor and
the Madman and Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded

Rich and marvelously researched. The Sunday Telegraph (UK)

An intimate portrait of Englands elite that spares no details of their dress, manners, and social habits... Bathed in the soft glow of nostalgia, it is a love letter to a lost past that luxuriates in the pleasures of what is presented as a simpler, more stable time. The Seattle Times

A charming bit of social history about how the rich enjoyed themselves that final hot summer before World War I. Chicago Tribune

A stunning piece of social history... What makes Juliet Nicolsons work outstanding are the portraits it renders of how both the high and the low lived at this turning point in English history. The Buffalo News

Juliet Nicolsons brief, pre-World War I narrative reads much like a memoir, and through a prism of nostalgia tempered with suggestions of political turbulence and sexual dalliance, her book succeeds, ultimately emerging as a snapshot of a culture in transition. California Literary Review

A peach of a book... full of good things, sparkling, elegant, and often funny.

Literary Review (UK)

Juliet Nicolson transports us back to the enchanted and enchanting summer of 1911. She guides us through its four months in company with some of the most delightful people imaginable. It is a wonderful and poignant tour that proved to be a farewell appearance to their world.

David Fromkin, author of Europes Last Summer:
Who Started the Great War in 1914?

Detail makes Juliet Nicolsons portrait of a single Edwardian year such a fascinating read.... I felt transported into what Nicolson felicitously describes as one of the high sunlit meadows of English history.

The Mail on Sunday (UK)

A fast-paced commemorative of the social antics of the English upper class as well as the financial woes of dock workers and household servants... A highly entertaining and knowledgeable introduction to a world that was changed forever by World War I.

Hannah Pakula, author of An Uncommon WomanThe Empress
Frederick: Daughter of QueenVictoria, Wife of the
Crown Prince of Prussia, Mother of Kaiser Wilhelm

T he P erfect S ummer

The Perfect Summer

England1911,

Just Before the Storm

JULIET NICOLSON

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Copyright 2006 by Juliet Nicolson

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First published in Great Britain in 2006 by John Murray (Publishers), a division of Hodder Headline

Quotation from A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman is reproduced by kind permission of the Society of Authors (as the Literary Representative of the Estate of A. E. Housman). Quotation from The Way Through the Woods by Rudyard Kipling is reproduced by kind permission of A. P. Watt Ltd. (on behalf of The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty).

Quotations from Royal Archives material: p. 19 RA/GV/CC/25/100 7 May I am dressed in grey; p. 19 RA/GV/CC/25/100 7 May tiresome trousseau; p. 20 RA/GV/CC/25/100 7 May the fashions of the season... so hideous; p. 34 RA/GV/QMD/1911 15 May Most amusing; p. 38 RA/GV/QMD/1911 19 May It began at 10 and was over at 1; p. 38 RA/GV/QMD/1911 20 May a great success; p. 188 RA/GV/QMD/1911 9 August heat perfectly awful; p. 190 RA/GV/QMD/1911 10 August At 11:00 a.m. we heard.

Printed in the United States of America

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Nicolson, Juliet.
The perfect summer : England 1911, just before the storm / Juliet Nicolson.
p. cm.
Originally published: London : John Murray, 2006.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-10: 0-8021-4367-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-4367-9

1. Great BritainSocial life and customs20th century. 2. Great BritainHistoryGeorge V, 19101936. 3. Social classesGreat BritainHistory20th century. 4. Great BritainSocial conditions20th century. 5. Social structureGreat Britain20th Century. I. Title.
DA566.4.N54 2007
942.083dc22 2006048854

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Contents

1. Junction of Holborn and Kingsway in London

2. Queen Mary out on a drive in Hyde Park with her daughter

3. The Memorial to Queen Victoria

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