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Review
“In this elegant and insightful short biography, Welch has enormous fun...she has done an excellent job of digging out the kind of telling detail that often gets swamped by the grand political narrative.” (Mail on Sunday)
“Frances Welch combines historical insight with a novelistic flair for character.” (Evening Standard)
“Welch writes with a limpid style and a cool intelligence.” (Sunday Telegraph)
“A jewel of a book…In its quirkiness and sheer unlikeliness, it tells us more about the Romanov’s brief lives and long, long shadow than a dozen more conventional biographies…Popular history writing at its cleverest and most enjoyable best.” (Mail on Sunday)
“A masterpiece of comic understatement.” (The Times (UK))
“I was hooked from page one…this is cumulatively moving – a real triumph of sympathy.” (A. N. Wilson)
“This is the kind of history that makes fiction look pallid and pointless.” (Evening Standard)
“A gripping account of the Romanovs…Wonderfully witty and sad by turns.” (Mail on Sunday)
“Deeply interesting…Welch illuminates one of the most extraordinary episodes in recent history.” (The Spectator)
“A quirky and gripping vignette of 20th-century Russian history.” (Sunday Times)
About the Author
Frances Welch is the author of The Russian Court at Sea (2011), Romanov Fantasy (2008), and Sydney Gibbes (2004). She lives in Suffolk, England.
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A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
Review
“In this elegant and insightful short biography, Welch has enormous fun...she has done an excellent job of digging out the kind of telling detail that often gets swamped by the grand political narrative.” (Mail on Sunday)
“Frances Welch combines historical insight with a novelistic flair for character.” (Evening Standard)
“Welch writes with a limpid style and a cool intelligence.” (Sunday Telegraph)
“A jewel of a book…In its quirkiness and sheer unlikeliness, it tells us more about the Romanov’s brief lives and long, long shadow than a dozen more conventional biographies…Popular history writing at its cleverest and most enjoyable best.” (Mail on Sunday)
“A masterpiece of comic understatement.” (The Times (UK))
“I was hooked from page one…this is cumulatively moving – a real triumph of sympathy.” (A. N. Wilson)
“This is the kind of history that makes fiction look pallid and pointless.” (Evening Standard)
“A gripping account of the Romanovs…Wonderfully witty and sad by turns.” (Mail on Sunday)
“Deeply interesting…Welch illuminates one of the most extraordinary episodes in recent history.” (The Spectator)
“A quirky and gripping vignette of 20th-century Russian history.” (Sunday Times)
About the Author
Frances Welch is the author of The Russian Court at Sea (2011), Romanov Fantasy (2008), and Sydney Gibbes (2004). She lives in Suffolk, England.