I really enjoyed this book. It's stunning to think that one family could have been dead center on most of the history that reverberated through modern European and American history. And if they hadn't been titled, they still would have been fascinating â they were a family of individuals in the truest sense.

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The six Mitford sisters were sort of a classier version of the Kardashians in mid-20th-Century Britain, influential on the political and the literary scene rather than as internet influencers and tabloid fodder.

But the notion of tackling all six in a single biography, and then loading it down with who went to which fashionable resort with whom and which of their friends had the most twee nickname makes the whole thing an uphill battle.

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Great book about a very unique family. Why did they all turn out to be so unusual? There was never a group like this in all England.

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