No Invitation Required: The Pelham Cottage Years

Lady Annabel Goldsmith—society hostess and eponym for an exclusive nightclub—recounts life in her Kensington home during the 1960s and 1970s, where she operated an open door policy and entertained some of the icons of the era Not just a dazzling party scene, Pelham cottage was also a treasured family home that provided longed-for stability and happiness, and where Lady Annabel raised her family. A time of huge personal change, Lady Annabel shares her most intimate memories of those cherished days, offering fascinating insight into her own character as well as the swirl of London's hedonistic decades. Intimate and perceptive essays elegantly describe some of the extraordinary figures that entered the Birley and Goldsmith circles—among them, Lord Lambton, Patrick Plunket, John Aspinall, Geoffrey Keating, Lord Lucan, Dominic Elwes, and Claus von Bulow. The richness of the narrative is in the particular detail and observation which only a true insider can record.