Laura Thompson

Heiresses

The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies

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Produktbeschreibung

A survey of the world of the wealthy heiress â glittering and gleaming, flawed and fascinating â from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Apollo / Head of Zeus
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 189mm x 124mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9781788548243
• ISBN-10: 1788548248
• Artikelnr.: 62259604

Autorenporträt

Laura Thompson is the author of several critically acclaimed works of non-fiction. Her first book The Dogs: A Personal History of Greyhound Racing won the Somerset Maugham Award. Rex V. Edith Thompson: A Tale of Two Murders was shortlisted for a CWA Dagger Award. She has written biographies of Nancy Mitford and Agatha Christie, A Different Class of Murder about the Lord Lucan scandal, The Last Landlady about her grandmother, and the New York Times-bestselling Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Unprotected
Part II: American Dreams
Part III: New Worlds
Part IV: Unprotected, Revisited
Epilogue
Endnotes
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Picture Credits
Index

Rezensionen

Heiress is one of those words, like penthouse or superyacht, that invite schadenfreude. As Laura Thompson's excellent book makes clear, there is nothing more satisfying to the popular imagination than a poor little rich girl... [A] wonderfully entertaining book' Sunday Times