The Perfect Summer: England 1911, Just Before the Storm

by Juliet Nicolson 

New York, Grove Press, 2006. The story of ‘the perfect summer’. Simon Winchester writes: “Buried deep within this deliciously evocative book, there is a single story that involves a lord, a man, not his wife, a grand country house, and a cry of celebratory sexuality. This story alone makes the volume’s purchase price worthwhile. And there are hundreds more like it…”