The Thirties by Juliet Gardiner – What the reviewers are saying…
The Daily Telegraph called the Thirties “hugely impressive…she gives us a vast panorama, taking in everybody from debutantes to the destitute, painting a thoroughly entertaining and convincing picture of a nation deeply divided by class and region…for the depth of its research, the quality of the writing and the sheer richness and vibrancy of the material, this is a quite outstanding work of social history. From architecture to the abdication, from zeppelins to zoos, it is comfortably the definitive account of a decade that has been much maligned”
The Observer said “This is history as told through a carefully woven web of stories, relayed by a consummate storyteller… the resulting portrait is… energetic and colourful”
Sunday Times described the book as “excellent…she has mastered a vast number of written sources, and the resulting synthesis is also a work of graceful, eloquent historical imagination… all the peaks are covered with calm competence, but it is in the bypaths she takes that THE THIRTIES excels…”
Independent on Sunday “Gardiner’s forte is her eye for detail… fascinating… consistently illuminating”
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