'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.

* Major broadsheet Ad campaign * Reviews and features in national press and women's magazines * On-going author PR to include appearances at literary festivals

About the Author

Mary S. Lovell has written several major biographies, including The Churchills, Bess of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth, A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton and Straight on till Morning: The Biography of Beryl Markham. She lives in Hampshire.

For further information on books by Mary S. Lovell, please visit her website at www.lovellbiographies.com.

Reviews
I enjoyed The Mitford Girls enormously... Lovell has had access to material which was not previously available... she paints a somewhat more human, in fact more tragic, picture of the Mitfords than previous biographers * Observer *
In the first book devoted to the whole tribe, Lovell does sterling work in revising our Nancy-made image of her parents in her novel The Pursuit of Love * Sunday Times *
The remarkable Mitfords have inspired dozens of books but this may well be the best... Enjoyably anecdotal, it is engagingly written while displaying a rare and commendable restraint * Independent on Sunday *
A book that can be heartily recommended -- A.N. Wilson * New Statesman *
This is an excellent book - calm, dispassionate and respectful of its subjects * Daily Telegraph *
By drawing on new sources, Lovell presents a fresh version of the Mitford story... Lovell's book proves that there was something extraordinary about those six well-bred girls from Gloucestershire * Independent *
Lovell's never-a-dull moment biography animates usually underrated players such as the girls' mother, Lady Redesdale, who once lectured Hitler on the importance of wholemeal bread, and Pam, the second eldest and 'most rural' Mitford Girl, who had a sky-blue Aga to match her eyes * Daily Mail *
A sensational saga * Mail on Sunday *
The whole story is brought together, expertly and entertainingly, by Mary S. Lovell... as a curtain raiser, both of the Mitford Girls and those bright young things around them, it is second to none * Daily Express *
Vivid social history that reads like a novel... An impressive group biography * Houston Chronicle *
Fascinating, the way all great family stories are fascinating -- Robert Gottlieb * New York Times Book Review *
These women were so powerfully, inescapably, passionately alive... The book remains engrossing from beginning to end * Vogue *
A dazzling cast of characters... A rivetingly intimate history lesson * San Francisco Chronicle Book Review *
Rises with aplomb to the challenges of a group biography, deftly weaving together the narrative threads of six at times radically disparate lives, to create a fascinating account of a fascinating family * Publishers Weekly *
They were quite a handful these sisters. But they were always great fun. And so is Lovell's rollicking book * Miami Herald *



Book Information
ISBN 9780349115054
Author Mary S. Lovell
Format Paperback
Page Count 624
Imprint Abacus
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Weight(grams) 516g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 166mm * 42mm