Take Six Girls : The Lives of the Mitford Sisters Paperback / softback
by Laura Thompson
Paperback / softback
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'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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:400 pages, 16pp illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:11/08/2016
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- ISBN:9781784970895
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In Stock - Less than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:400 pages, 16pp illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:11/08/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9781784970895