Take Six Girls

It's brilliant on the most fascinating and least explored sister, Diana ... A wonderful book' Mail on Sunday.

Préface

The contrasting lives of the Mitford sisters stylish, scandalous and tragic by turns hold up a mirror to upper-class life before and after the Second World War.

Auteur
Laura Thompson is the author of several critically acclaimed works of non-fiction. Her first book The Dogs: A Personal History of Greyhound Racing won the Somerset Maugham Award. Rex V. Edith Thompson: A Tale of Two Murders was shortlisted for a CWA Dagger Award. She has written biographies of Nancy Mitford and Agatha Christie, A Different Class of Murder about the Lord Lucan scandal, The Last Landlady about her grandmother, and the New York Times -bestselling Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters .

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Looks at the contrasting lives of the six Mitford sisters, and holds up a mirror to upper-class life before and after WWII. Born into country-house privilege, the differences in their outlooks during the 1930s came to symbolise the political polarities of a dangerous decade.