PositiveAir Mail... [Brickell\'s] book is the only one that pulls back the curtain on the Cartier Wizard of Oz to tell you about the family you never knew ... Brickell is the tour guide whose fascination with her subject turns hitherto unknown fact into fresh gossip, and she spares no detail along the way ... Brickell, who admits that she’s no jewelry historian, has done prodigious research, tracking down primary sources and talking to former employees and experts in the field. (My one quibble is wishing she had had a better editor.) Quite rightly, she frames the narrative around the letters, including personal notes about family life ... Brickell has humanized Cartier. That’s no small feat.
