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Take Six Girls

By Laura Thompson

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Take Six Girls

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
416
Release Date:
2016-08-11
Publication Date:
2016-08-11
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1784970891
ISBN13:
9781784970895
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
299 g
Height:
126 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
30 cm
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