Juliet Nicolson is the author of two works of history, The Great Silence- 1918-1920 Living in the Shadow of the Great War and The Perfect Summer- Dancing into Shadow in 1911; and a family memoir, A House Full of Daughters. She lives with her husband in East Sussex, not far from Sissinghurst, where she spent her childhood.
Nicolson makes social history feel like reading the best and most gripping novel. A beautiful, wholly original book -- India Knight A brilliant concept transformed into a brilliant and revelatory book. Completely fascinating and engrossing -- William Boyd As gripping as any thriller, Frostquake is the story of a national trauma that came out of nowhere and changed us forever. Brilliantly written and almost eerily relevant to our current troubles, I read it in one sitting -- Tony Parsons An engagingly written mixture of social history and memoir . . . Nicolson invites us to see the worst winter of the century as a catalyst for social change in a nation that had entered the final months of 1962 in the grip of Edwardian deference and morality, yet emerged the following spring riding the first floods of the Swinging Sixties -- Trevor Phillips * Sunday Times * Fascinating, quirky and evocative . . . Nicolson takes us right back to that muffled, snowbound world . . . The fact we happen to be living through another, different kind of paralysis adds an extra layer of fascination to this book -- Ysenda Maxtone Graham * Daily Mail *