A Little Talk in Downing St
Bee Wilson, 17 November 2016
My Darling Mr Asquith: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Venetia Stanley
by Stefan Buczacki.
Cato and Clarke, 464 pp., £28.99, April 2016,978 0 9934186 0 0 Show More
by Stefan Buczacki.
Cato and Clarke, 464 pp., £28.99, April 2016,
“... Balzac,’ Buczacki writes. When Asquith’s letters to Venetia were published in 1982, edited by Michael and Eleanor Brock, only around half of the total 300,000 words were included. Buczacki has read the other half and found that the editors omitted a lot of social gossip and an even larger quantity of ‘desperately ... ”