Take Six Girls
The Lives of the Mitford Sisters
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Take Six Girls
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Jilly Bond
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Laura Thompson
'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.©2015 Laura Thompson (P)2026 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Critic reviews
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'
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'
Thompson is marvellous at mapping and explicating the webs or skeins of sibling rivalry [in this] gripping and appalling family saga
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'
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
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'
I was captivated by this group biography, which tells the story of the Mitfords' sensational lives in a fresh and concise way
A wonderful telling of an extraordinary family living in extraordinary times
Not the first-ever book about the Mitford sisters - but it might well be the best of the lot'
Thompson's wonderfully readable biography emphasises their sheer extraordinariness and celebrates them
This book builds rich individual portraits, especially of the unfathomable Diana
This is a careful, realistic assessment of their virtues, follies and charm
Gives a great insight into the relationship between the sisters as their lives unfold
It's brilliant on the most fascinating and least explored sister, Diana... A wonderful book'
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