Sisters of Fortune

This transatlantic celebration of sisterhood is a most gripping and fascinating tale, both scholarly and a page turner

Literary Review

A fascinating exploration of the attitude to money shown by two different cultures', 'In a market currently dominated by "bodice biographies", it is a rare pleasure to find a biography about the bodices who once dominated the market

Sunday Times

A whirlwind of colourful social history and rich characters

Saga

Outstanding

Irish Times

A rollicking good read, told with verve and compassion

Country Life

Vividly paints a fascinating picture of a transatlantic world where rich women could achieve extraordinary social power by sticking with their sisters and being shrewd with their money

Spectator

Splendid...she illustrates the propulsions of social history - from the Canadian fur trade to the battle of Waterloo and growth of the railways... Jehanne Wake has uncovered, and animated, a whole new world

Independent

Superbly researched

David Kynaston, Guardian, Christmas round up

Fluent and lively... the lives and times of the Caton sisters make not simply a very good story but one with louder resonances in the social and political history of the period

Times Literary Supplement

A beguiling account of high society told with authority and style

Matthew Dennison, Mail on Sunday

As good as the author's previous biography of Queen Victoria's eldest daughter and that is saying a great deal

Contemporary Review

The sisters' story emerges from their letters, spiced in Jehanne Wake's entertaining narrative with aristocratic gossip and succinct accounts of (such) half-forgotten history

Daily Mail

Wake has crafted an entertaining story, based on research of several letters from the period, about the sisters, their loves, lives and ambitions...as a historical account it comes recommended

Julian Fleming, Sunday Business Post