Redeeming Features
A Memoir
- Published: 1 July 2010
- ISBN: 9781409088950
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 368
Redeeming Features is a tour de force romp through high society and the more glamorous chapters in the counterculture of the 20th century and the 21st...Haslam pops up from decade to decade alongside some of the most fascinating people in our cultural history
Vanity Fair
A baroque soufflé of names, faces, bitchy asides and put-downs, sprinkled with funny anecdotes.
Camilla Long, Sunday Times
a terrifically entertaining read
Carla McKay, Daily Mail
extremely diverting, essentially kind-hearted and well written
William Leith, Evening Standard
From the Mitfords to Warhol's Factory to Paris Hilton - Nicky Haslam has been at the centre of every glittering social circle in living memory... Haslam should be declared a National Treasure. While the nation's spirits are grievously low, Haslam brings joy and sprinkles magic dust of one sort or another wherever he goes
Kate Muir, The Times
Gloriously entertaining
Sebastian Shakespeare, Tatler
Haslam is an intriguing man...[and] can write wonderfully well
The Spectator, Susan Hill
Haslam writes evocatively and touchingly
Peter Parker, Times Literary Supplement
It is...boisterously good company and proof that if Haslam knows one thing, it's that you can only get away with a life like his if you are never, ever boring.
Claire Allfree, Metro
Nicky Haslam has known everyone from Greta Garbo to Cole Porter to the Royal Family, with many unforgettable eccentrics in between. But this is not a catalogue of celebrities. It is a truly felt, beautifully crafted , wise consideration of a full life, which paints an unforgettable picture of a vanished England and America. Masterpiece is an overused word, but this Proustian evocation is indeed a masterpiece
A. N. Wilson
Society gossip galore by the gadfly's gadfly
Daily Mail
The high priest of wit, hilarity and name-dropping...but apart from all of the names - the names! - the joy of this book comes from Nicky's undying joie de vivre
Matthew Bell, Independent on Sunday
The interior designer, journalist and socialite Nicky Haslam has met almost everyone who's anyone
Brandon Robshaw, Independent on Sunday
This is a wonderfully entertaining memoir, gossipy, touching and tender, even if at times it verges on self-parody. This book is suffused with his irrepressible joie de vivre and is never less than entertaining
Literary Review
This really rather wonderful book is about a life devoted to "Looking the part"
Charles Moore, Daily Telegraph
Though full of as much gossip as you might expect from the inveterate socialite, this memoir is also interestingly clever
Daily Telegraph
You could find yourself as Nicky Haslam's 'plus one' at the swellest parties with his delicious memoir
Naomi West, Harpers Bazaar