Description: "The Mitford sisters were brilliant, blazing and beautiful. Their letters, which span most of the twentieth century, bring them to life and take us into a world of luxury, controversy, notoriety, heartbreak and triumph. Amazing, but so are the Mitford sisters." - Barbara Walters "The lost art of letter writing is splendidly portrayed in this massive volume....It is not surprising that their letters are clever and humorous; but they are also poignant and revealing." - Library Journal (starred review) "A novelist would never get away with inventing this: a correspondence spanning eight decades, written from locations including Chatsworth and HM Prison, Holloway, between six original and talented women who numbered among their friends Evelyn Waugh, Maya Angelou, J F Kennedy and Adolf Hitler. The story of the extraordinary Mitford sisters has never been told as well as they tell it themselves." - J.K. Rowling "Nothing captures their enduring allure quite like their own correspondence...With this epistolary testament to sisterhood, the mystery of the Mitfords...has at last been solved." - Vogue "Marvelous...Beautiful, intelligent, and fiercely independent, each sister went her own way, as is so powerfully revealed in this selection of witty, amusing and sometimes shocking letters...There's hardly a page that isn't interesting." - Minneapolis Star Tribune "THE MITFORDS could have been an operatic group biography on an epic scale: Instead, thanks to its editor's taste and discretion, it is chamber music with symphonic longings... an intriguing record of each sister's personality... all six could write evocatively, even hauntingly." - Washington Post Book World "Marvelous...THE MITFORDS is quite simply one of the most sinful guilty pleasures of the season." - Baltimore Sun "Funny, loving, sparkly, snarky, heartbreaking, chilling, gossipy, wise....You'll be rewarded with six up-close, personal-and sometimes appalling-takes on the 20th century." - O magazine "Fascinating...The sisters had the stiff upper lip of their class, and, it must be said, a way with words." - Wall Street Journal "Compelling...The letters are so affecting that it is difficult to refrain from wanting to get to know the sisters better." - St. Petersburg Times "An engrossing, deeply personal group portrait...Each letter is a thrilling gem unto itself...Marvelous fun." - Kirkus Reviews "Peppered with colorful nicknames, filled with love, encouragement, jealousy and gossip, and written primarily to amuse the recipients, the letters testify to the bonds of sisterhood." - Publishers Weekly "A splendid introduction to the eccentric charms of the Mitford world...On my short list of best books of the year." - Newsday "Fascinating...Their irresistible appeal comes from the way they invite us into the close family circle." - New York Times Book Review

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