The Sisters The Saga of the Mitford Family [Paperback]

This is the story of a close, loving family splintered by the violent ideologies of Europe between the world wars. Jessica was a Communist; Debo became the Duchess of Devonshire; Nancy was one of the best-selling novelists of her day; beautiful Diana married the Fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley; and Unity, a close friend of Hitler, shot herself in the head when England and Germany declared war.A dazzling cast of characters.... A rivetingly intimate history lesson.Vivid social history that reads like a novel.... An impressive group biography.These women were so powerfully, inescapably, passionately alive.... The book remains engrossing from beginning to end.Lovell deftly weaves together the various strands of her subjects' lives, making great use of letters, interviews and unpublished correspondence, as well as interviews with the two surviving Mitford sisters, Diana and Deborah.This biography presents a fascinating family to a new generation of readers.Lovell rises with aplomb to the challenges of a group biography, deftly weaving together the narrative threads of six at times radically disparate lives to create a fascinating account of a fascinating family.A captivating read.The Mitfords' stories have been told over and over again, but.... Lovell, utilizing previously unseen documents, explores the relationships between the sisters... and presents the utter 'fun' of this privileged but madcap family. Fascinating, the way all great family stories are fascinating. Robert Gottlieb,