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The brilliantly entertaining classic memoir of one of the century’s most extraordinary families The Mitfords. ‘Stunning … fabulously true … at once touching and wildly funny’ Tatler’ 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. 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. ‘More than an extremely amusing autobiography … she has evoked a whole generation’ Sunday Times