MixedThe TimesRenton’s first book is impeccably rehearsed and researched. She is almost too obsessed by recounting the political goings-on of the age while skimming over the more riveting sexual preferences of a Prime Minister in an attempt to ensure the biography isn’t regarded as trivial. But the heartbreaking letters between the Wyndham sisters and their children during the war ensure this book was never going to be a raucous romp through the lives of the upper classes but a serious, spellbinding chronicle of the last days of the Edwardian England.
