Hons and Rebels is an enchanting and deeply absorbing memoir of an isolated and eccentric upbringing which conceals beneath its witty, light-hearted surface much wisdom and depth of feeling. A brilliant muckraking journalist, Mitford was the author of, among other works, a memoir of her youth, Hons and Rebels a study of the funeral industry, The American Way of Death and Kind. ‘Whenever I read the words “Peer’s Daughter” in a headline,’ Lady Redesdale once sadly remarked, ‘I know it’s going to be something about one of you children.’ The Mitford family is one of the century’s most enigmatic, made notorious by Nancy’s novels, Diana’s marriage to Sir Oswald Mosley, Unity’s infatuation with Hitler, Debo’s marriage to a duke and Jessica’s passionate commitment to communism. Her book is full of the music of time’ SUNDAY TIMES Esmond Romilly was the nephew of Winston Churchill, a rebel against his family and public school who left England to fight for the rebels in the Spanish Civil War. ‘More than an extremely amusing autobiography … she has evoked a whole generation. Churchills Rebels is a heart-braking story of two young people madly in love and in open rebellion against their up-bringing and a way of life. ‘Wonderfully funny and very poignant’ Philip Toynbee ‘This book is just about my favourite book of all time … I’m not entirely convinced I could like somebody who didn’t like this book … it’s funny and moving and gives you an insight into this extraordinary moment as the war is about to begin … it’s so vivid, and what’s more, it’s incredibly current’ Robert Rinder, BBC Radio 4
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