ARGONAUT BOOKS

A survey of the world of the wealthy heiress - glittering and gleaming, flawed and fascinating - from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. Reviews Heiress is one of those words, like penthouse or superyacht, that invite schadenfreude. As Laura Thompson's excellent book makes clear, there is nothing more satisfying to the popular imagination than a poor little rich girl... [A] wonderfully entertaining book'Sunday Times[A] deeply empathetic study of heiresses through the agesThe TimesExquisite and gossipy... Thompson, a gifted storyteller, obviously delighted...Read More