Juliet Nicolson in conversation with Chloe Fox

The Book of Revelations

Women and their secrets

Juliet Nicolson is the bestselling author of three works of social history, The Great Silence: 1918-1920 Living in the Shadow of the Great War; The Perfect Summer: Dancing into Shadow in 1911; and Frostquake: The frozen winter of 1962 and how Britain emerged a different country; as well as a family memoir, A House Full of Daughters. She is a mother and a grandmother and lives with her husband in East Sussex.

About the Book of Revelations

A fascinating blend of social history and first-person stories looking at women and their secrets – and what they tell us about our changing times

Do you want to know a secret?

The average person is keeping thirteen secrets at any one time, five of which they’ve never shared with a soul. A secret can thrill one person and destroy another; and the deepest ones echo far down the generations.

The Book of Revelations is a book about the secrets women keep: the ones they are forced into, the ones they hold through shame, and the ones they share. Told through a kaleidoscopic blend of first-person stories and memoir, from the ‘silent generation’ of women in the 1950s to the influencers of the 2020s, we witness long-buried family secrets aired at last and the repercussions which occur when women who have been forced to keep quiet find their voice. Finally, we are compelled to wonder whether women are once again in danger of being silenced by censure, caution and fear.

Praise for the Book of Revelations

‘I gobbled this book up. It’s a gem’

HELEN BONHAM CARTER

‘Juliet Nicolson’s book has a depth charge and a sense of the now that is so timely and important’

JEANETTE WINTERSON

‘Utterly engrossing and timely’

INDIA KNIGHT

About Chloe Fox

After twenty-five years in journalism, writing for the likes of Financial Times and Vogue, Chloe Fox – with the support of her husband, Jamie King – decided to fulfil a lifelong dream of running a bookshop. You can now find her at Fox and King on the Tisbury High Street.