{"product_id":"9781784970895","title":"Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters","description":"Author: Thompson, Laura\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781784970895\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 05 Oct 2016\u003cbr\u003ePages: 400 Format: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch2\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Wonderfully readable... Emphasises their sheer extraordinariness and celebrates them' \u003ci\u003eMAIL ON SUNDAY\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46631843528862,"sku":"UBD-9781784970895","price":22.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781784970895.jpg?v=1774310025","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781784970895","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}