My Darling Winstonis an edited collection of the personal letters between Winston Churchill and his mother, Jenny Jerome, between 1881when Churchill was just sixand 1921, the year of Jennys death. Many of these intimate letters between two gifted writersare published here for the first time, and the exchange of letters between mother and son has never before been published as a correspondence.

A significant addition to the Churchill canon,My Darling Winstontraces Churchills emotional, intellectual, and political development as confided to his primary mentor, his mother. As well as providing a basic narrative of Jennys and Winston Churchills lives over a forty-year period, My Darling Winston tells the story of a changing mother-son relationship, characterised at the outset by Churchills emotional and practical dependence on his mother, but which is dramatically reversed as her life begins to disintegrate tragically towards its end. Edited by David Lough. Hardcover;648 pages.

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