Daughters of Britannia The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Katie Hickman was brought up in Europe, the Far East and South America, and educated at Oxford University. She has been travelling and writing ever since.
<p>Her last book, A Trip to the Light Fantastic, received extraordinarily good reviews:</p>
<p>‘The most ambitiously imaginative sort of travel writing’<br />- Patrick Skene Catling</p>
<p>‘Magic is at the heart of Hickman’s narrative. Her characters would not seem out of place in the oeuvre of Gabriel Garcia Marquez or Isabel Allende’<br />- Sunday Times</p>
<p>‘Mexico will not have been portrayed more vividly since Graham Greene’s The Lawless Roads… Enchanting’<br />- Geoffrey Moorhouse, Daily Telegraph</p>
An authoritative and entertaining account by one of our most talented writers of the courageous and unusual women who have been the backbone of the British Empire and foreign service.
‘English ambassadresses are usually on the dotty side and leaving their embassies drives them completely off their rockers’ – Nancy Mitford
From the first exploratory expeditions into foreign lands, through the heyday of the British Empire and still today, the foreign service has been shaped and run behind the scenes by the wives of ambassadors and minor civil servants. Accompanying their spouses in the most extraordinary, tough, sometimes terrifying circumstances, they have struggled to bring their civilization with them. Their stories – from ambassadresses downwards – never before told, are a feast of eccentricity, genuine hardship and genuine heroism, and make for a hilarious, compelling and fascinating book.
An authoritative and entertaining account by one of our most talented writers of the courageous and unusual women who have been the backbone of the British Empire and foreign service.
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• An entertaining, fascinating history, packed with anecdotes of courageous, energetic and bizarre women who endured the rigours of diplomatic life and helped to shape it
• No other book of its kind exists
• Katie Hickman has been shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Writing award and the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award
• Herself an ambassador’s daughter, Hickman knows from the inside the works of the foreign service and could not be better placed to write and publicize this book
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Katie Hickman was brought up in Europe, the Far East and South America, and educated at Oxford University. She has been travelling and writing ever since.