The two authors - husband and wife - settled in the west of Ireland over thirty years ago, casting off from their life in the US on a romantic impulse to begin a new life near Christine's fa... read more
The rich and varied life of the woman who introduced smallpox vaccination into the British Isles, a friend of Swift and Pope, and who is famous for her letters, especially those sent from Tu... read more
A curator of fashion at the V&A for most of her working life, CW uses her experience and sensitivity to clothes to explore how, in her own family's life, the secrets of clothes measure out t... read more