Juliet Nicolson

Juliet Nicolson is a British author and journalist.

Nicolson has published five books, including three works of social history, one memoir and a novel. Three of these were selected as a BBC Radio 4 “Book of the Week”. The journalist Tina Brown has said: ‘Juliet Nicolson has invented a new kind of social history.’

The Perfect Summer (published 2006) focuses on one sweltering season in 1911. The Great Silence (published 2009) is about three consecutive November 11ths from 1918-1920. Frostquake (published 2021) tells the story of one locked-down, snowy winter of 1962-3.

Nicolson’s memoir, A House Full of Daughters (published 2016) is an account of seven generations of daughters in her own family beginning with her great great grandmother, Pepita de Oliva, a Spanish flamenco dancer born in Malaga in 1830 and culminating with her granddaughter born in London in 2013.

Nicolson’s novel Abdication (published 2012) is set in 1936 against the backdrop of the British Royal Family’s famous constitutional crisis.