The Mitford sisters were prominent figures in the twentieth-century British cultural landscape, both significant and influential. I was drawn to this intriguing collection because of my fascination with the authors, Namcy the novelist and Jessica the reporter. ( )

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Unbelievable but 834 pages of letters and not one boring page. Remarkable women. ( )

This book gave a very interesting insight to the sisters and how they felt about each other. A little daunting reading 800 pgs of letters but by the end it wet my appetite for more about the Mitford Sisters. ( )

Letters between six sisters, spanning over 70 years, would be interesting enough.... but the fact these are the Mitford girls make them even more so. Charlotte Mosley's "The Mitfords: Letters between six sisters" is just plain fascinating.

I read Nancy Mitford's "Love in a Cold Climate" & "The Pursuit of Happiness" a couple of years ago and somewhere along the way learned that the characters were based on her aristocratic family. And what a family it was, producing such a myriad of characters -- an author, two fascists, a farmer, a communist and a duchess.

Their correspondence is most interesting during the World War II era, but at times it get a bit hard to read, given their galling political opinions. The letters really show you how the sisters grew and often mellowed in their senior years.

It took a long while to get through this book, but I'm glad I decided to pick it up. ( )