Great Silence - Softcover

Juliet Nicolson is the author of The Perfect Summer and has written for the Daily Telegraph, Vogue, the London Evening Standard, Tatler and the Guardian, amongst others. She was also the editor of the memoirs of Lady Annabel Goldsmith. She read English at the University of Oxford and has worked in publishing in both the UK and the States. She is the President of the Kent Branch of the Jane Austen Society, has two daughters and lives in London and Kent.

'I devoured it . . . It's a wonderfuly written book about the aftermath of the First World War with something I didn't know on every page' * Barry Humphries, Sun Tel Christmas books * 'A fascinating read' * Observer * 'Juliet Nicolson examines a much overlooked period of history. She painstakingly recounts how those who had stayed at home came to terms with a brutally changed world in the aftermath of the First World War and how the returning soldiers struggled to cope with the horrors they faced' * Observer, Great Poolside page-turners * 'This detailed account of that period is both fascinating and lucidly written' * The Daily Telegraph * 'Nicolson has opened the door onto a time of misery, introspection and change' * Lancashire Evening Post * 'Nicolson writes well and thoughtfully' * Sunday Telegraph * 'The strength of the book lies in the sensitivity and skill with which the private lives and relationships of the protagonists are recounted. Nicolson writes fluently and paces her narrative expertly' * BBC History Magazine * Thoroughly entertaining . . . full of memorable detail * Spectator * A fascinating read * Mail on Sunday * 'There is an unpretentious directness about Nicolson's approach to her subjects that gives the book a freshness and vitality. Happily, she also has an eye for the amusing or the ironic' * Scotsman * Praise for The Perfect Summer: 'As page-turning as a novel ' * Joanna Trollope, Guardian * 'Nicolson has opened the door onto a time of misery, introspection and change' * Lancashire Evening Post * 'Nicolson writes well and thoughtfully' * Sunday Telegraph * 'The strength of the book lies in the sensitivity and skill with which the private lives and relationships of the protagonists are recounted. Nicolson writes fluently and paces her narrative expertly' * BBC History Magazine * Thoroughly entertaining . . . full of memorable detail * Spectator * A fascinating read * Mail on Sunday * 'There is an unpretentious directness about Nicolson's approach to her subjects that gives the book a freshness and vitality. Happily, she also has an eye for the amusing or the ironic' * Scotsman * Praise for The Perfect Summer: 'As page-turning as a novel ' * Joanna Trollope, Guardian * Juliet Nicolson examines a much overlooked period of history. She painstakingly recounts how those who had stayed at home came to terms with a brutally changed world in the aftermath of the first world war and how the returning soldiers struggled to cope with the horrors they faced * Elizabeth Day, Observer *