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One summertime of nearly 100 years ago found one of the high sunlit meadows of British history. A new king was crowned; followers swarmed to Covent Garden to see the Ballet Russes and Nijinskys gravity-defying leaps. The aristocracy was at play, bounding from house get together to another; the socialite Lady Michelham travelled with her nineteen yards of pearls. Rupert Brooke (a 23-year-old poet deeply in love with love, Keats, marrons glaces and real truth) swam in the river at Grantchester. But perfection was over-reaching itself. The rumble of thunder from the summer's storms presaged not only the bloody warfare years ahead: the united states was taken to near standstill by industrial attacks, and unrest subjected the chasm between privileged and poor; as though heat was torturing those imprisoned in society's straitjacket and stifled by the town smog.Children, seeking relief from the scorching sunshine, drowned in town ponds. The actual protagonists could not have known is the fact that they were playing out the backdrop to WWI; in a few years time the entire world, let alone England, could not be the same again. From the eyes of some exceptional individuals; a debutante, a suffragette, a politician, a trade unionist, a butler and the Queen; Juliet Nicolson illuminates a turning point in history. With the gift items of any great storyteller she rekindles a eyesight of a period when the sun shone but its shadows dropped on all.
