The contrasting lives of the Mitford sisters – stylish, scandalous and tragic by turns – hold up a mirror to upper-class life before and after the Second World War.
Laura Thompson is the award-winning author of Life in a Cold Climate: A Biography of Nancy Mitford; Agatha Christie: An English Mystery (2007) and A Different Class of Murder: the Story of Lord Lucan (2014).
I was enthralled and charmed by this group biography of all six
Mitford sisters, which tells the intertwined stories of their
stylish scandalous lives in a fresh and admirably concise way – and
with a striking contemporary sensibility too
*Bookseller, Editors Choice*
Engaging... Thompson's is an astute, highly readable and well
assembled book, and she writes with particular intelligence about
the sisters' self-mythologising and their ongoing hold on the
public imagination'
*The Observer*
Thompson is marvellous at mapping and explicating the webs or
skeins of sibling rivalry [in this] gripping and appalling family
saga
*The Times*
The first book to consider "the whole six-pack" in the post-Mitford
age. And what a remarkable story it is... Thompson retells the
story with great style and illuminating detail'
*The Independent*
Thompson has written this book with generosity and delicacy. It is
amusing, poignant and perceptive as a portrait of the sisters' long
lives and changing times, and of their own apparent inability to
change with them
*Book Oxygen*
A breezy vigorous argument for the sisters' powerful, unrepeatable
significance... Thompson combines a subtle understanding of history
with enjoyably crisp, tart insights: this is an excellent place
either to begin with the Mitfords or proceed with them'
*Mail on Sunday*
I was captivated by this group biography, which tells the story of
the Mitfords' sensational lives in a fresh and concise way
*Sunday Express*
A wonderful telling of an extraordinary family living in
extraordinary times
*Yorkshire Gazette & Herald*
This is a careful, realistic assessment of their virtues, follies
and charm
*Daily Mail.*
Not the first-ever book about the Mitford sisters - but it might
well be the best of the lot'
*Reader's Digest.*
Thompson's wonderfully readable biography emphasises their sheer
extraordinariness and celebrates them
*The Mail on Sunday*
This book builds rich individual portraits, especially of the
unfathomable Diana
*TLS*
Gives a great insight into the relationship between the sisters as
their lives unfold
*Irish Independent*
It's brilliant on the most fascinating and least explored sister,
Diana... A wonderful book'
*Mail on Sunday*
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