An Instant New York Times Bestseller Riveting.
The intertwined stories of their stylish and scandalous lives--recounted in masterly fashion by Laura Thompson--hold up a revelatory mirror to upper-class English life before and after World War II..
Then, as the shadows crept over 1930s Europe, the stark--and very public--differences in their outlooks came to symbolize the political polarities of a dangerous decade.
Born into country-house privilege in the early years of the twentieth century, they became prominent as bright young things in the high society of interwar London.
They were the Mitford sisters: Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica, and Deborah. --Tina Brown, The New York Times Book Review 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.
The Six captures all the wayward magnetism and levity that have enchanted countless writers without neglecting the tragic darkness of many of the sisters\' life choices and the savage sociopolitical currents that fueled them.
An Instant New York Times Bestseller Riveting
