The Daily Mail, Julie Myerson
He sets scenes with the relish and skill of a novelist…That kind of detail makes this book so irresistibly real…It’s a testament to the cumulative power of Miller’s prose that the final photograph moved me to surprised tears.The Daily Mail, Julie Myerson
A.D. Miller2023-06-26T09:56:15+01:00He sets scenes with the relish and skill of a novelist…That kind of detail makes this book so irresistibly real…It’s a testament to the cumulative power of Miller’s prose that the final photograph moved me to surprised tears.The Daily Mail, Julie Myerson
https://admillerbooks.com/testimonials/the-daily-mail-julie-myerson/The Times, Edwina Currie
A wry, poignant history of what it was like to be a Jewish immigrant to Britain in the 20th century…The book is full of hilarious insights into East End dodging and diving...This is the story of our complicated island nation, and it is one of which Britain can be proud.The Times, Edwina Currie
A.D. Miller2023-06-26T10:01:16+01:00A wry, poignant history of what it was like to be a Jewish immigrant to Britain in the 20th century…The book is full of hilarious insights into East End dodging and diving...This is the story of our complicated island nation, and it is one of which Britain can be proud.The Times, Edwina Currie
https://admillerbooks.com/testimonials/the-times-edwina-currie/The New Statesman, Linda Grant
There are three good reasons to buy and read this book: first, it must be the best-documented account of the class trajectory of British Jewry in the 20th century; second, it throws valuable light on contemporary debates about immigration…and third, it is a fantastically interesting and well-written story.The New Statesman, Linda Grant
A.D. Miller2023-06-26T09:59:24+01:00There are three good reasons to buy and read this book: first, it must be the best-documented account of the class trajectory of British Jewry in the 20th century; second, it throws valuable light on contemporary debates about immigration…and third, it is a fantastically interesting and well-written story.The New Statesman, Linda Grant
https://admillerbooks.com/testimonials/the-new-statesman-linda-grant/The Jewish Quarterly, Francesca Segal
Miller possesses a rare constellation of talents, combining the historian’s mastery of source material with the novelist’s descriptive dexterity. His prose is lyrical as he brings Blitz Britain to his readers in Technicolour, with all its terrors.The Jewish Quarterly, Francesca Segal
A.D. Miller2023-05-27T16:49:54+01:00Miller possesses a rare constellation of talents, combining the historian’s mastery of source material with the novelist’s descriptive dexterity. His prose is lyrical as he brings Blitz Britain to his readers in Technicolour, with all its terrors.The Jewish Quarterly, Francesca Segal
https://admillerbooks.com/testimonials/the-jewish-quarterly-francesca-segal/The Sunday Times, Susie Boyt
Family history of the best sort, the subject matter vastly appealing, the writing intelligent and clear…At the heart of this memoir looms the extraordinary figure of Miller’s grandfather, whom the author presents with a novelist’s sensitivity and power.The Sunday Times, Susie Boyt
A.D. Miller2023-05-28T16:05:39+01:00Family history of the best sort, the subject matter vastly appealing, the writing intelligent and clear…At the heart of this memoir looms the extraordinary figure of Miller’s grandfather, whom the author presents with a novelist’s sensitivity and power.The Sunday Times, Susie Boyt
https://admillerbooks.com/testimonials/the-sunday-times-susie-boyt/00A.D. Miller
Henry Freedman met Miriam Claret in February 1929, when he was twenty-two and she eighteen; he was a barrow boy, she a milliner’s apprentice. They were raised in east London, but their families had emigrated from Eastern Europe, and they were not to end their lives in the East End.
From a market stall on Petticoat Lane, their story led to a life lived among Astors and Parker-Bowleses, a grand flat on Regent’s Park, and a world of Court, club and charity balls – a very English world, albeit one that today seems almost as alien as the now-vanished Yiddish enclave of 
the East End and the lost Jewish communities of Eastern Europe. As they changed their lives, and as evacuation, the Blitz and the humdrum heroisms of the war were followed by victory, so also did London change, and British society as a whole.
A.D .Miller’s compelling family history tells, elegaically but without nostalgia, of London’s many faces. It is a story of immigration and Anglicisation, of the significance of race and class and language and accent, of how it has been possible for people in Britain to change themselves and their lives, and the limits of how much they can do so.
“All in London is quiet, and it does not seem possible that something is wrong. I am on duty tonight and I shall be thinking of you all the time. I could keep on writing to you all night but you must already know what I want to say, and how much you mean to me.”