Description
Award-winning biographer Laura Thompson pays homage to the English pub through the remarkable story of her grandmother, the first woman in England to be given a publican's license in her own name.
About the Author
Laura Thompson attended stage school and Oxford University. She won the Somerset Maugham Award with her first book, The Dogs, and wrote two books about horse racing while living in Newmarket. Her biographical study of Nancy Mitford, Life in a Cold Climate, was published in 2003, followed by Agatha Christie- An English Mystery (2008), A Different Class of Murder- The Story of Lord Lucan (2014), and Take Six Girls- The Lives of the Mitford Sisters (2015). She now lives in Richmond.
Reviews
'The award-winning Thompson turns her acute eye for detail on her own family in this gorgeous memoir of her indomitable grandmother, Vi, the first woman to hold a pub licence in England' Independent 'Just occasionally a book comes along that leaves you breathless with pleasure, admiration and a dash of envy too. The Last Landlady is Laura Thompson's exquisitely observed and brilliantly written memoir of the life and times of her grandmother, the first woman in England to hold a pub licence in her own right... Simply delicious' Mail on Sunday
Book Information
ISBN 9781783525027
Author Laura Thompson
Format Hardback
Page Count 304
Imprint Unbound
Publisher Unbound