Wait For Me!: Memoirs of the Youngest Mitford Sister - Hardcover

Devonshire, Deborah

 
9781848541900: Wait For Me!: Memoirs of the Youngest Mitford Sister
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1848541902 ISBN 13: 9781848541900
Verlag: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

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 who live and work in it. As Duchess of Devonshire, Debo played an active role in restoring and overseeing the day-to-day running of the family houses and gardens, and in developing commercial enterprises at Chatsworth. She tells poignantly of the deaths of three of her children, as well as her husband's battle with alcohol addiction.

Wait For Me is enthralling and a total joy, full of the author's sympathetic wit (which she is not afraid to use on herself).

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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. She died in 2014.

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Verlag
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1848541902
ISBN 13 
9781848541900
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
384
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