Description
‘A sensational saga’ Mail on Sunday
‘A cracking read’ Lynn Barber, Observer
‘Engrossing from beginning to end’ Vogue
‘Fascinating, the way all great family stories are fascinating’ New York Times Book Review
Even if the six daughters, born between 1904 and 1920, of the charming, eccentric David, Lord Redesdale and his wife Sydney had been quite ordinary women, the span of their lives – encompassing the most traumatic century in Britain’s history – and the status to which they were born, would have made their story a fascinating one. But Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Decca and Debo, ‘the mad, mad Mitfords’, were far from ordinary.
