One Hundred Summers

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Taking the reader on a journey from the dying embers of Edwardian England through the trauma of two world wars the hedonism of London in the 1980s and 'Cool Britannia' in the 1990s right up to the present day </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>One Hundred Summers </em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>is a portrait of a century as it was experienced by one extraordinary family.</span></p><p><br></p><p>Along the way Vanessa Branson recalls the rough and tumble of her chaotic but happy post-war childhood; growing up alongside her older brother Richard who was entrepreneurial even as a teenager she would have a front-row seat at the birth of Virgin one of the most remarkable success stories in British business. She goes on to share her many adventures in a fascinating life from opening an art gallery on London's Portobello Road and founding an arts festival in Morocco to turning an ancient palace into a world-famous hotel and finding a real-life Neverland in the Scottish island of Eilean Shona where J. M. Barrie once wrote a screenplay for <em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Peter Pan</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>.</span></p><p><br></p><p>Touching humane and at times heartbreakingly honest Branson's family memoir is a vivid and charming tapestry of English eccentricity fortune fate and passion.</p>