Perfect

This is extremely readable and I greatly enjoyed it.
Jennie was a dollar bride and part of the cash for titles exchange.
However her father wasn't really wealthy and money remained a struggle for all of her life.
She married pregnant, it's highly doubtful Winston was a preemie. Her 2nd son wasn't fathered by her husband and his actual father remains a mystery.
She married 3 times and after she's widowed by her first husband, both of her 2nd husbands are around the age of her sons.
She's a spendthrift and charming.
She joined her son in anti-suffragette activities.
She was instrumental to Winston's career.
I gave 1 star because the author includes antiblack racism really for no apparent reason. She refers to black people as 'negroes' not cool at all and makes reference to a Dr Sims as a wonderful gynecologist when actually he's the Dr Mengele of the USA. He tortured enslaved black women which is how he was able to make the medical advances he made.
He had anesthesia available to him and chose not to use it while he 'practiced' his techniques dozens of times.
The black women he tortured were human beings and he can't be mentioned as a 'good' doctor without his history being taken into account.
Also Churchill was famously racist and sexist. So was Jennie and this author.
Sigh. ( )

I have never come across such absolutely ghastly people. Try as I may there was not one person in the book that had any redeeming features. Jennie most probably was the worst of all. Her and her entire family should have been thrown into debtors prison and sent to Australia. The entire so called upper class were a bunch of bigots, liars, anti-Semites (even the Rothschild's were), philanderers, louts and cads. My opinion of Winston has changed entirely after reading the book. ( )

It was difficult to connect to the life experiences of Jennie. She and her family certainly had their good points, such as their artistic and musical talents, but it was difficult to appreciate these talents as part of the overall description of her life. Attending parties and dressing well seemed very important in this world and I was surprised by the level of influence she seemed to have despite an overall lack of education. Her life seemed to require an excessive amount of money and the book seemed to show that Jennie was aware of this but felt powerless to stop spending. It didn't particularly provide a positive view of Winston Churchill either. This is a biography best reserved for someone with a strong interest in the Churchill family. ( )

As a biographer of Jennie's sister-in-law, Lily, Duchess of Marlborough, I am always on the lookout for new information about Jennie and her Churchill family. This recent book summed up existing research in a workmanlike manner. ( )