Deborah Cohen
Praise for Family Secrets
A well-researched, timely and absorbing book, it challenges many of our prejudices about how our immediate ancestors thought, and invites us to enquire more closely into how and when and why families keep sec ...
Hilary Mantel
A 'book of marvels'. What marks out Family Secrets as an important book is not so much its breadth as its depth ... the result is a clear sighted investigation into what our forebears felt was private, ...
Kathryn Hughes, Guardian
Scrupulous research with cool analysis and a humane intelligence
Financial Times
A well-researched, timely and absorbing book, it challenges many of our prejudices about how our immediate ancestors thought, and invites us to enquire more closely into how and when and why families keep sec ...
Hilary Mantel
A 'book of marvels'. What marks out Family Secrets as an important book is not so much its breadth as its depth ... the result is a clear sighted investigation into what our forebears felt was private, ...
Kathryn Hughes, Guardian
Scrupulous research with cool analysis and a humane intelligence
Financial Times
A well-researched, timely and absorbing book, it challenges many of our prejudices about how our immediate ancestors thought, and invites us to enquire more closely into how and when and why families keep sec ...
Hilary Mantel
A 'book of marvels'. What marks out Family Secrets as an important book is not so much its breadth as its depth ... the result is a clear sighted investigation into what our forebears felt was private, ...
Kathryn Hughes, Guardian
Scrupulous research with cool analysis and a humane intelligence
Financial Times