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 (Routledge, 1993), The Romanov & Mr Gibbes (Short Books, 2003) and A Romanov Fantasy: Life at the Court of Anna Anderson (Short Books, 2007) She is married to the writer Craig Brown, and has two children. She lives in Aldeburgh, Suffolk.
A masterpiece of comic understatement
*The Times*
Welch writes with a limpid style and a cool intelligence
*Sunday Telegraph*
I was hooked from page one - this is cumulatively moving - a real
triumph of sympathy
The kind of history that makes fiction look pallid and
pointless.
*Evening Standard*
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 splendidly exotic story ... 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
*Irish Times*
The book s readability and telling use of detail are splendid.
*Spectator*
An engrossing account of the flight of the surviving Romanovs after
the 1917 Revolution.
*Sunday Express*
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