Once upon a time the well-bred daughters of Britain's aristocracy took part in a female rite of passage: curtseying to the Queen. But in 1958 this ritual was coming to an end. Under pressure to shine - not least from their mothers - the girls became the focus for newspaper diarists and society photographers in a party season that stretched for months among the great houses of England, Ireland and Scotland. Fiona MacCarthy traces the stories of the girls who curtseyed that year, and shows how their lives were to open out in often very unexpected ways - as Britain itself changed irreversibly dur Last Curtsey - Fiona MacCarthy od authora Fiona MacCarthy a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
| Autor |
Fiona MacCarthy |
| Jazyk |
anglický |
| Počet stran |
320 |
| Rok vydání |
2007 |
| Nakladatelství |
Faber and Faber |
