Status Updates From Asylum for the Queen

A tough read.

"Treasures without sentiment, arrived perfect from the shops? No yellowed ivory snuffbox, no china inkwell nicked by the haste of one's great-great aunt..."

I picked this up at an antique store because it seemed interesting when I flipped through although as an old book it had no summary so I had no idea what it was about until I saw the summary on GR. Quote: "Had they eaten and slept here between cries and begot their filthy little urchins of a night in the squalid stalls since Henry IV?" and "her lashes, quivering like dragonfly wings"