Maam Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret

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From the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, the funny and tragic, bestselling biography of The Queens sister, Princess Margaret. Perfect for fans of Netflixs The Crown.

A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE YEAR

I honked so loudly the man sitting next to me dropped his sandwich Observer

She made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando clam up. She cold-shouldered Princess Diana and humiliated Elizabeth Taylor. Jack Nicholson offered her cocaine and Pablo Picasso lusted over her. To her friends Princess Margaret was witty and regal, to her enemies, she was rude and demanding. Maam Darling looks at her from many angles, creating a kaleidoscopic biography, and a witty meditation on fame and art, snobbery and deference, bohemia and high society.

'Jaw-dropping' The Times

'Hilarious' Sunday Telegraph

'Brilliant' Evening Standard

'A masterpiece' Country Life

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Maam Darling is fascinating. Brown has done something amazing with Maam Darling: in my wilder moments, I wonder if he hasnt reinvented the biographical form Observer

A biography teeming with the joyous, the ghastly and the clinically fascinating Hannah Bett, The Times

Consistently hilarious and eye-opening Tim Adams, Observer

Heaven India Knight, Sunday Times

The only royal biography of the year worth handing the Queens head over for, Maam Darling is a modern and unconventional portrait of an old-fashioned princess as distilled and pickled through the genius of Craig Brown Helen Davies, Sunday Times

Craig Brown has brilliantly drawn together the component parts of a complex woman The Oldie

A playful, impish approachBrown gives us lots of wonderful incidental detailThe deftly amused writing constantly tugs the corners of your mouth upwards Evening Standard

A cross between biography and satire that perfectly displays Browns rare skills as journalist and parodist, Mark Lawson, Guardian, Books of the Year

Hugely entertaining brilliantly written, with a wonderful sardonic edge but also a thoughtful, at times even moving tone Spectator

If you want a book that will have you punching your pillow in helpless laughter, this is it. Moreover, he has invented an entirely new genre, of which it is a masterpiece The list of the Princess's 'rumoured' lovers up to and wickedly including Dusty Springfield sparked my decision to buy this book as a Christmas present for everybody I know, and for those I don't. Country Life

Hilarious Sunday Telegraph

Brilliant Evening Standard

Craig Brown achieves the impossible by finding a tone in which to write about monarchy. Not bitchy, not snide, not angry, but not fawning nor deferential either. Just funny. David Hare, Guardian

Author Bio

Craig Brown has been writing the Private Eye celebrity diary since 1989. He has also written parodies for many other publications, including The Daily Telegraph, Vanity Fair, The Times and The Guardian. He is the author of several books, most recently The Lost Diaries and One on One.