The Perfect Summer

The Perfect Summer by Juliet Nicolson is awesome.

It is a tour de force of people and events in "England 1911, Just Before the Storm" and reads like a suped-up retro Twitter aggregate. I loved it.

"Twittering" from 1911 are a variety of well-known people (Winston Churchill, Virginia Woolf and dozens others). But, the book also details less famous people whose stories could create a series of additional books such as Lady Diana Manners, Mary Macarther, Rupert Brooke or Elinor Glyn.

Plus, The Perfect Summer is littered with anecdotes of the time and place and the regular people who worked and played and lived and died that summer.

This is a must read.