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‘A total treat’ (Sunday Times) and perfect festive gift for fans of the Mitford sisters
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- £13.99
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- £13.99
Publisher Description
'A total treat - bravo' Sunday Times
'A spectacular, dizzying romp' Alison Bechdel, Fun Home
Outrageous, passionate and glamourous - a stunning graphic biography of the six sisters who blazed their way through the 20th century, beguiling their peers, the press and then the rest of the world
As a young girl living in sun-bleached 1960s suburban California, Mimi Pond fell in love with the Mitford sisters. Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica and Deborah Mitford brought society glitz, pageantry, scandal, and real (rainy) weather to her own prosaic life.
High society debutantes known for rubbing shoulders with some of history’s most infamous fascists and communists, the sisters were also, in turn, gifted writers, inveterate nicknamers, chicken-raising homebodies, scathing wits, and passionate adventurers in the maelstrom of the 20th century.
Drawn with inimitable artistic flair and a mischievous affinity for the decadent and grandly declining aristocracy, Mimi Pond brings the Mitfords to life in this glittering and lovingly researched family biography.
**Delight your loved ones with this perfect festive gift**
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One of modern history's most flamboyantly dysfunctional families comes to gossipy life in this irresistible biography from Pond (The Customer Is Always Wrong). Born to an aristocratic but insolvent English family in the first decades of the 20th century, the six Mitford sisters grow up sharp-witted, strong-willed, and eccentric. "Deborah, as a child, spent many hours in the family chicken house practicing the exact expression of a hen about to lay an egg," Pond notes in one of countless bizarre anecdotes. In adulthood, the sisters become a novelist and historian (Nancy), a Communist and muckraking journalist (Jessica), a duchess (Deborah), a poultry breeding enthusiast (Pamela), and Nazi sympathizers (Diana and Unity, whose personal connections with Hitler were scandalous at the time). "They each had a talent for shaping entertaining narratives and for making their lives seem epic," Pond writes, "which they were." Pond intermittently compares the Mitfords' soap-operatic lives with her own upbringing in Southern California in the 1960s and '70s, dreaming of glamour and longing for even one sister. Her witty art, drawn in inky blue, imbues the characters with personality, and the ingenious page layouts comment on the subject matter: the sisters' finishing school days, for example, are represented with machinery processing girls for the marriage market. It's an off-kilter trip through the 20th century that readers won't want to miss.
