Wait For Me!
Memoirs of the Youngest Mitford Sister
$27.39
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
9 August 2011
Summary
Deborah Devonshire is a natural writer with a knack for the telling phrase and for hitting the nail on the head. She tells the story of her upbringing, lovingly and wittily describing her parents (so memorably fictionalised by her sister Nancy); she talks candidly about her brother and sisters, and their politics (while not being at all political herself), finally setting the record straight. Throughout the book she writes brilliantly about the country and her deep attachment to it and those …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781848541917 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1848541910 |
| Author: | Deborah Devonshire |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 9 August 2011 |
| Weight: | 288g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 129mm x 27mm |
| Series: | John Murray |
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A touching, funny memorial to a vanished age - Stephen Moss, Guardian
I was captivated … unputdownable - Bel Mooney, Daily MailThe Duchess is an exhilarating writer, with a great gift for storytelling, and a prose style of elegant simplicity - Jane Shilling, Evening StandardWait For Me! proves irresistible, even for die-hard Mitphobes like me - Craig Brown, Mail on SundayFunny and sad, the irresistible combination that is one of the secrets of charm - Daily TelegraphShe [Debo] is in possession of what I can only describe as a uniquely Mitford-esque sensibility; loving but unsentimental; devoid of self-pity; unwilling to bore others with her own travails; able to find the ridiculous in almost anything … these qualities - disarmingly rare in Oprahworld - are , to me, indisputably admirable - ObserverAn entertaining, lively portrait - ScotsmanThe one book this year that everyone will want in their Christmas stocking - A. N. Wilson, SpectatorAbout The Author
Deborah Devonshire
Deborah, the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, was brought up in Oxfordshire. In 1950 her husband Andrew, the 11th Duke of Devonshire, inherited estates in Yorkshire and Ireland as well as Chatsworth, the family seat in Derbyshire, and Deborah became chatelaine and housekeeper of one of England’s greatest and best-loved houses. Following her husband’s death in 2004, she moved to a village on the Chatsworth estate where she now lives.
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