Juliet Nicolson is the author of two works of history, The
Great Silence 1918–1920, Living in the Shadow of the
Great War and The Perfect Summer: Dancing into
Shadow in 1911, and a novel, Abdication. As the grand-
daughter of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson and
the daughter of Nigel Nicolson she is part of a renowned
and much scrutinised family and the latest in the family
line of record-keepers of the past. She lives in East
Sussex, not far from Sissinghurst, where she spent her
childhood. She has two daughters, Clemmie and Flora, and one grand-
daughter, Imogen.