Heiresses

"Trapped in a silk-draped Venn diagram with the socialite and hostess, the heiress has been an unfair object of ridicule. After years of getting dragged through the tabloids and trotted out on reality shows like one of her beloved show ponies, she is both restored to dignity by Thompson's concerned embrace and pushed away with an air kiss." -New York Times Book Review

"[A] romp through the lives of the filthy rich." -Wall Street Journal

"Skillfully evoking disparate social milieus and generational divides, Thompson packs the narrative full of juicy gossip without resorting to caricature. Readers will be enthralled." -Publishers Weekly

"Authoritative, eye-opening, and gloriously gossipy."--Booklist

"Engaging...A book that offers insight as well as entertainment--a peek into the human condition from an unexpected angle." -Kirkus Reviews

"Heiresses is a haunting reflection on the gilded cage and its stifled female occupants, from Consuelo Vanderbilt to Barbara Hutton. Thompson shows in mordant detail how money really can't buy you love." -Daisy Goodwin, bestselling author of The American Heiress

"Heiresses is a book perfectly calibrated for our times. Thompson manages to shine a light into what it meant historically for women to have money and why it gave them some power but little happiness in a book that feels remarkably modern...witty, insightful, deliciously gossip laden and slightly scandalous." --Anne Sebba, bestselling author of Les Parisiennes

"With her characteristic wit and verve, Laura Thompson takes us through the follies, intrigues and dramas of the lives of a gallery of history's heiresses from the 17th to the 20th centuries...rich with perceptive detail and will keep the reader entertained to the very last page." --Helen Rappaport, bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters

"An engaging study of the effect wealth has on women." --Anne de Courcy, author of The Husband Hunters and Chanel's Riviera