{"product_id":"take-six-girls-by-laura-thompson-9781784970895","title":"Take Six Girls","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWonderfully readable... Emphasises their sheer extraordinariness and celebrates them \u003cem\u003eMAIL ON SUNDAY\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\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 idolised 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\n\n\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\n\n\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\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46843360641260,"sku":"9781784970895","price":26.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/14323783482823.jpg?v=1758797999","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/take-six-girls-by-laura-thompson-9781784970895","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}