Beverley Nichols 
Subtitle: A Life
Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
Published: March 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780881924442
Subjects: Biography: general; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Naturalists, Gardeners, Environmentalists; Biography / Autobiography; 20th Century English Novel And Short Story; Women; Biography & Autobiography; English; Biography/Autobiography; England; Gardening / General; Nichols, Beverley; 20th century; Nichols, Beverley,; Literary; 1899-; Authors, English; Biography; Gardeners
First sentence: IT IS difficult to imagine a family as vile as the Nicholses who, if Beverley's account in his autobiographical Father Figure is to be accepted, vied with the Borgias in almost everything bar murder.