WAITING FOR PRINCESS MARGARET
Emma Tennant

‘The fuzzy relationship between fact, fiction and memory provides the atmosphere of Waiting for Princess Margaret, a book belonging in all three categories. Based on fact, with the narrator’s voice embedded with the voices of others; imagined as a work of fiction and inspired by memory, it is as near, for me at least, as it’s possible to get to reality.’ From the Author’s Introduction

The third volume in a sequence of Memoirs, Waiting for Princess Margaret will be welcomed by all those many devotees of Emma Tennant’s unique literary oeuvre.
Her first volume, Strangers, was hailed as ‘brilliant’ by Antonia Fraser; the Sunday Times praised its ‘supple, imaginative empathy and the skill of a practised novelist’; The Mail on Sunday called it a ‘book full of charm, as you would expect from this accomplished and delicate novelist’ and The Oldie considered it ‘fascinating ... written with huge sensitivity’.

Her second volume, Girlitude, was equally applauded by the critics. The Express on Sunday longed ‘to learn what happened next’; The Sunday Times thought ‘she emerges as a latter-day Mitford ... One longs for the third volume‘; the Scotsman spoke of a ‘writing so fresh you want to drown in it’ and the Independent on Sunday could ‘hardly wait for the third volume’. Well, here it is.

Emma Tennant was born in London and grew up in the Borders of Scotland. She has written more than 30 books, and lives in West London with her husband, Tim Owens.