Synopsis

Edited by Charlotte Mosley.

The Mitford sisters were the great wits and beauties of their time. Immoderate in their passions for ideas and people, they counted among their diverse friends Adolf Hitler and Queen Elizabeth II, Cecil Beaton and President Kennedy, Evelyn Waugh and Givenchy.

The Mitfords offers an unparalleled look at these privileged siblings through their own unabashed correspondence. Writing to one another to confide, tease, rage and gossip, the Mitford sisters set out, above all, to amuse. A correspondence of this scope is rare; a collection penned by six born storytellers is irreplaceable.

Spanning the twentieth century, the magically vivid letters of the legendary Mitfords constitute a superb social and historical chronicle and an intimate portrait of the stormy but enduring relationships between six beautiful, gifted, and radically different women. It contains letters exchanged between Nancy Mitford, Pamela Mitford, Diana Mitford, Unity Mitford, Jessica Mitford and Deborah Mitford between 1925 and 2003.

Carefree, revelatory and intimate, this selection of unpublished letters between the six legendary Mitford sisters, compiled by Diana Mitford’s daughter-in-law, is alive with wit, passion and heartbreak.

Details

• Format : Very Thick 2nd Hand Paperback
• Condition : Good (Almost Very Good)
• Category : Non-Fiction - Non-Fiction - Uncategorised
• Published : 2007 (This Edition 2008 - Harper Perennial)
• ISBN : 9781841157740
• SKU : B001901
• PPC : SP650gm
• RRP : £10.99
• Quantity Available : 1 only.

External Reviews

'A novelist would never get away with inventing this: a correspondence spanning eight decades, written from locations including Chatsworth and Holloway Prison, between six original and talented women who numbered among their friends Evelyn Waugh, Maya Angelou, J. F. Kennedy and Adolf Hitler.' - J. K. Rowling.

'A glorious portrait of a six-way, life-enhancing, lifelong conversation.' - Sunday Times.

The Editor