Description
Outrageous, passionate and glamorous, the Mitford sisters beguiled their peers, the press and then the rest of the world throughout their lives and still captivate us today - celebrated cartoonist Mimi Pond brings to them to life in this sparkling graphic biography.
As a young girl living in sun-bleached 1960s suburban California, Mimi Pond fell in love with the Mitford sisters. Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica and Deborah Mitford brought society glitz, pageantry, scandal, and real (rainy) weather to her own prosaic life.
High society debutantes known for rubbing shoulders with some of history's most infamous fascists and communists, the sisters were also, in turn, gifted writers, inveterate nicknamers, chicken-raising homebodies, scathing wits, and passionate adventurers in the maelstrom of the 20th century.
Drawn with inimitable artistic flair and a mischievous affinity for the decadent and grandly declining aristocracy, Mimi Pond brings the Mitfords to life in this glittering and lovingly researched family biography.
About the Author
Mimi Pond (Author, Illustrator)
Mimi Pond is a cartoonist, illustrator, and writer. She has created comics for the Los Angeles Times, Seventeen magazine, National Lampoon, and many other publications. She has also written for television: her credits include the first full-length episode of The Simpsons, "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", and episodes for the television shows Designing Women and Pee Wee's Playhouse. Her two graphic novels, Over Easy (2014) and The Customer is Always Wrong (2017) gained national critical acclaim, winning the PEN Centre USA Award for Graphic Literature Outstanding Body of Work in 2014 and nominated for the Harvey Award Book of the Year in 2017. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, the painter Wayne White.
Book Information
ISBN 9781787335561
Author Mimi Pond
Format Hardback
Page Count 444
Imprint Jonathan Cape Ltd
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Weight(grams) 750g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 186mm * 40mm
