The Fall of the House of Montagu

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The Montagu story provides enough diverting specificities - bankruptcy, gambling dens and colonial exile - to make this a dramatic and pathos-inducing read * New Statesman * Ably demonstrates how rapidly a grand inheritance can be eroded by poor decisions but sketches in the historical challenges such estates faced too * Telegraph * A memorable picture of how post-war British aristocrats had to adapt or die * Daily Mail * My jaw kept dropping as I devoured Robert Wainwright's wonderfully racy biography, full of comedy and tragedy and populated by some of the most dissolute and eccentric aristocrats of the 20th century -- Ysenda Maxtone Graham * Daily Mail, on ENID * As social history Sheila Chisholm's life is fascinating... it's undeniably enjoyable to read of all that glitter and gold -- Selina Hastings * Daily Mail, on SHEILA * Jolly gossipy reading, easily digested * The Telegraph, on NELLIE * [A] lively chronicle...paints a memorable picture of how post-war British aristocrats had to adapt or die -- Ysenda Maxtone Graham * Daily Mail *