num_pages: 388
description: 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.They were the Mitford sisters: Nancy Pamela Diana Unity Jessica and Deborah. Born into country-house privilege they became prominent as bright young things in the high society of interwar London. Then as the shadows crept over 1930s Europe the stark  and very public  differences in their outlooks came to symbolise the political polarities of a dangerous decade.The intertwined stories of their lives  recounted in masterly fashion by Laura Thompson  hold up a revelatory mirror to upper-class English life before and after World War II.
language: English
title: Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters
publisher: Head of Zeus