Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons

Abstract

Charlotte Gray (Simon & Schuster, £25)  THIS is an unabashedly popular double biography, of two American women, both born in 1854. Jennie Jerome married Randolph Churchill and became the mother of a future British prime minister; Sara Delano married James Roosevelt and produced a future American president. Charlotte Gray goes at her subjects with dash, juggling the two women's lives with skill.