Redeeming Features

Nicky Haslam has known everyone from Greta Garbo to Cole Porter to the Royal Family, with many unforgettable eccentrics in between. But this is not a catalogue of celebrities. It is a truly felt, beautifully crafted , wise consideration of a full life, which paints an unforgettable picture of a vanished England and America. Masterpiece is an overused word, but this Proustian evocation is indeed a masterpiece

A. N. Wilson

From the Mitfords to Warhol's Factory to Paris Hilton - Nicky Haslam has been at the centre of every glittering social circle in living memory... Haslam should be declared a National Treasure. While the nation's spirits are grievously low, Haslam brings joy and sprinkles magic dust of one sort or another wherever he goes

Kate Muir, The Times

Redeeming Features is a tour de force romp through high society and the more glamorous chapters in the counterculture of the 20th century and the 21st...Haslam pops up from decade to decade alongside some of the most fascinating people in our cultural history

Vanity Fair

You could find yourself as Nicky Haslam's 'plus one' at the swellest parties with his delicious memoir

Naomi West, Harpers Bazaar

Society gossip galore by the gadfly's gadfly

Daily Mail

This really rather wonderful book is about a life devoted to "Looking the part"

Charles Moore, Daily Telegraph

This is a wonderfully entertaining memoir, gossipy, touching and tender, even if at times it verges on self-parody. This book is suffused with his irrepressible joie de vivre and is never less than entertaining

Literary Review

Haslam writes evocatively and touchingly

Peter Parker, Times Literary Supplement

The high priest of wit, hilarity and name-dropping...but apart from all of the names - the names! - the joy of this book comes from Nicky's undying joie de vivre

Matthew Bell, Independent on Sunday