The Secret Life of the Savoy - and the D'Oyly Carte family

Zusatztext Rich with details, both serious and frivolous, and deftly sets the story of this singular institution in the context of the greater forces of English history. Informationen zum Autor Olivia graduated with a scholarship in Modern History from St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where she remained for her master's degree. She worked as a journalist before writing her first book Gin Glorious Gin , and now works as a freelance writer living in London. Klappentext "For The Gondoliers-themed birthday dinner, the hotel obligingly flooded the courtyard to a depth of four feet to conjure the Grand Canal of Venice by the Thames. They painted frescoes in front of its walls, strung fairy lights up to illuminate the night sky, and dressed the waiters as gondoliers. Dinner was served on a gilded, silk-lined floating gondola, covered in carnations, in the middle of the 'canal'. Real swans were swimming in the water, as the Neapolitan tenor Enrico Caruso serenaded the guests under a paper moon. As a final flourish, a baby elephant borrowed from London Zoo pulled a five-foot high birthday cake up the little bridge to the gondola." Vorwort The story of the Savoy's founders, through three generations and a hundred years of luxury. Zusammenfassung The story of the Savoy's founders, through three generations and a hundred years of luxury.

Product details

• Authors: Olivia Williams, Williams Olivia
• Publisher: Headline
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9781472269799
• ISBN: 978-1-4722-6979-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 238 mm x 34 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book; Biography & True Stories, Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, Social and cultural history