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High-spirited, beautiful, clannish and adored, the five strikingly different Langhorne sisters were mythologized in the plural long after their separate careers were a matter of history. Their great fame held sway first in the South, in Virginia, then across the rest of America and England.
'Combine the plots of Gone With the Wind and The Remains of the Day, add a dash of Henry James and F. Scott Fitzgerald, and you come close to the remarkable mix of family history, political intrigue and high society hauteur that is James Fox's The Langhorne Sisters.'
Independent
'The Langhorne Sisters is not just a study of a family, or of an age, it is a living, breathing recreation of a singular way of life... Fox has done more than create a monument to his family - he has captured a fading impression and made it glow. The Langhornes are alive again.'
Observer
'Not just a riveting human drama but a serious and original contribution to the social and political history of the last century.'
Sunday Telegraph
'I read it with huge enjoyment and continuous fascination, utterly enmeshed in these extraordinary lives.'
William Boyd
'Combine the plots of Gone With the Wind and The Remains of the Day, add a dash of Henry James and F. Scott Fitzgerald, and you come close to the remarkable mix of family history, political intrigue and high society hauteur that is James Fox's The Langhorne Sisters.'
Independent
'The Langhorne Sisters is not just a study of a family, or of an age, it is a living, breathing recreation of a singular way of life... Fox has done more than create a monument to his family - he has captured a fading impression and made it glow. The Langhornes are alive again.'
Observer
'Not just a riveting human drama but a serious and original contribution to the social and political history of the last century.'
Sunday Telegraph
'I read it with huge enjoyment and continuous fascination, utterly enmeshed in these extraordinary lives.'
William Boyd