Wild Swans

'An inspiring tale of women who survived every kind of hardship, deprivation and political upheaval with their humanity intact'

Hillary Clinton, O, The Oprah Magazine

'A mesmerizing memoir'

TIME Magazine

'It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of this book'

Mary Wesley

'Everything about "Wild Swans" is extraordinary. It arouses all the emotions, such as pity and terror, that great tragedy is supposed to evoke, and also a complex mixture of admiration, despair and delight at seeing a luminous intelligence directed at the heart of darkness'

Minette Marrin, Sunday Telegraph

'Immensely moving and unsettling; an unforgettable portrait of the brain-death of a nation'

J. G. Ballard, Sunday Times

'"Wild Swans" made me feel like a five-year-old. This is a family memoir that has the breadth of the most enduring social history'

Martin Amis, Independent on Sunday

'There has never been a book like this'

Edward Behr, Los Angeles Times