Miranda Carter's first book, Anthony Blunt- His Lives, won the Royal Society of Literature Award and the Orwell Prize and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Prize, the Guardian First Book Award, the Duff Cooper Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. The book was named as one of the New York Times Book Review's seven best books of 2002. Miranda lives in London with her husband and two sons.
Fascinating. A wonderfully fresh and beautifully choreographed work
of history -- Craig Brown * Mail on Sunday *
Carter draws masterful portraits of her subjects and tells the
complicated story of Europe's failing international relations
well...a highly readable and well-documented account * Spectator
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Absorbing. Carter has a good eye for a quote and an ability to
bring various personalities to life. A convincing and considerable
achievement -- Sarah Bradford * Literary Review *
Carter's account of how an already dysfunctional family turned
toxic is fresh and enjoyable...timely and welcome * Guardian *
Miranda Carter's story is full of vivid quotations...a romp though
the palaces of Europe in their last decades before Armageddon *
Sunday Times *
Well-paced, a thoroughly polished, professional piece of work. A
macabre family saga -- A. N. Wilson * Evening Standard *
An entertaining study of power and personality portrays the
strutting absurdity and grotesque glamour of the last emperors on
the eve of catastrophe -- Simon Sebag Montefiore * Financial Times
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Fascinating. Carter is a gifted storyteller and has written a very readable account
* Independent *Miranda Carter writes with lusty humour, has a fresh clarifying intelligence, and a sharp eye for telling details. This is traditional narrative history with a 21st-century zing. A real corker of a book
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