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The Churchill Girls

By: Rachel Trethewey
Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
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Bright, attractive and well-connected, in any other family the Churchill sisters - Diana, Sarah, Marigold and Mary - would have shone. But they were not in any other family; they were Churchills, and neither they nor anyone else could ever forget it.

From their father - ‘the greatest Englishman’ - to their brother, golden boy Randolph, to their eccentric and exciting cousins, the Mitford Girls, they were surrounded by a clan of larger-than-life characters which often saw them overlooked. Marigold died when she was very young, but her three sisters lived lives full of passion, drama and tragedy....

Diana, intense and diffident; Sarah, glamorous and stubborn; Mary, dependable yet determined - each so different but each imbued with a sense of responsibility towards each other and their country. Far from being cosseted debutantes, these women were eyewitnesses at some of the most important events in world history, including at the Second World War conferences of Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam. Yet The Churchill Girls is not a story set on the battlefields or in Parliament; it is an intimate saga that sheds light on the complex dynamics of family set against the backdrop of the tumultuous 20th century.

Accomplished biographer Rachel Trethewey draws on unpublished family letters from the Churchill archives to bring Winston and Clementine’s daughters out of the shadows and tell their remarkable stories for the first time.

©2021 Rachel Tretheway (P)2021 The History Press

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Perhaps I was put off in the first minute when I heard that this book is about 'Winston's daughters' - they were also Clementine's daughters! Next I wondered why Winston (and Clementine's) son wasn't included, given that his life is arguably at least as interesting as his sisters' and surely 'The Churchill Children' would have been as enticing a title as 'The Churchill Girls'. Then there was Juliet Stevenson's voice - I know she's a very competent professional and credit to her for getting through an entire book without any mispronunciations, but here her voice has an unpleasant nasal element which I hadn't noticed in any of her acting roles.

As for the content, I didn't learn anything I hadn't already picked up from reading biographies of Winston and histories of WWII. There was quite a bit of supposition about how everyone must have felt at the many times of crisis and sadness which is always irritating in a book purporting to be history/biography. Whatever it was, the book totally failed to engage my interest and I played it on high speed just so I could finish it.

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