<b>Michael Jenkins</b> had a long career as a senior diplomat. He was knighted in 1990 and died in 2013.
Artfully adds up to a portrait of a family, a time and a place... A very charming memoir. -- Penelope Lively * The New York Times * A seminal experience of life so beautifully recorded that the book becomes a small icon to be treasured not only on the shelf of a personal library, but in the mind. -- P.D. James A radiant book... A whole spectrum of colours and lights, of delights and elegances, of wistfulness and love. -- Dirk Bogarde * Daily Telegraph * This golden world which seemed to have survived from another century... survive(s) in this enchanting and affectionate book. * Mail on Sunday *