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Frances Welch has written for the Sunday Telegraph, Granta, The Spectator and the Financial Times. She is co-author of Memories of Revolution: Russian Women Remember, The Romanov + Mr Gibbes and A Romanov Fantasy: Life at the Court of Anna Anderson. She is married to the writer Craig Brown, and has two children. She lives in Aldeburgh, Suffolk.
A gripping account of the Romanovs' choppy passage into exile.
Welch's detective work has produced a book that is wonderfully
witty and sad by turns.
*Mail on Sunday*
The book's readability and telling use of detail are splendid.
*Spectator*
A quirky and gripping vignette of 20th-century Russian history.
*Sunday Times*
A gripping account of the Romanovs choppy passage into exile. Welch
s detective work has produced a book that is wonderfully witty and
sad by turns.
*Mail on Sunday*
Yes, it's been told before, but the 1919 exile of the Romanov
family from Russia, in which they sailed on HMS Marlborough, is a
splendidly exotic story that is well worth another airing; and
Frances Welsh does it grippingly here, with lots of details I
hadn't come across before. I loved to read of the goods they
brought with them, including rolled-up Rembrandt paintings, Faberge
eggs and other treasures of the sort. What a pilgrimage, to be
sure.
*Sunday Telegraph*
A fascinating, poignant portrait of a bizarre collection of people
caught up in the chaos of their exodus"
*The Irish Times*
A voyage of delight - revealing, fascinating and by turns shocking
and amusing - a story so extraordinary that it reads like a
novel.
*Lancashire Evening Post*
Brooks gets inside the head, explains how the brain works... it's
like frieze-framing a novel and discussing the motivation of the
characters. It's fascinating...
*Evening Standard*
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