'Wonderfully readable... Emphasises their sheer extraordinariness and celebrates them' MAIL ON SUNDAY. The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald Mosley; the fourth idolized Hitler and shot herself in the head when Britain declared war on Germany; the fifth was a member of the American Communist Party; the sixth became Duchess of Devonshire. They were the Mitford sisters: Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica and Deborah. Born into country-house privilege, they became prominent as 'bright young things' in the high society of interwar London. Then, as the shadows crept over 1930s Europe, the stark - and very public - differences in their outlooks came to symbolise the political polarities of a dangerous decade. The intertwined stories of their lives - recounted in masterly fashion by Laura Thompson - hold up a revelatory mirror to upper-class English life before and after World War II.
ISBN: | 9781784970895 |
Publisher: | Head of Zeus |
Imprint: | Head of Zeus |
Published date: | 11 Aug 2016 |
DEWEY: | 941.0820922 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 388 , 16 unumbered of plates |
Weight: | 310g |
Height: | 130mm |
Width: | 197mm |
Spine width: | 27mm |