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"Charming, captivating, and at times wickedly funny. 'Wait for Me!' was the refrain of young 'Debo', the baby of the family. Now ninety, she has caught up beautifully." --Time
"A national treasure." --Sarah Lyall, The New York Times
"Wait for Me! . . . teem[s] with memories of love, war, betrayal, heartbreak, housekeeping, and frolic . . . tantalizing . . . riveting." --Liesl Schillinger, The New York Times Book Review
"Admirably done, cannily blending disclosure and reticence in a charming book that kept me riveted." --Miranda Seymour, The Guardian (London)
"[Debo] is in possession of what I can only describe as a uniquely Mitford-esque sensibility: loving but unsentimental . . . able to find the ridiculous in almost anything." --Rachel Cooke, The Observer (London)
"More entertaining than anything I could say about it." --P. J. Kavanagh on COUNTING MY CHICKENS..., The Spectator
"Nobody with an interest in the past century could fail to be interested in the gossip, which extends to just about everyone of interest." --Matthew Bell on HOME TO ROOST, The Independent on Sunday
"Behind the wit and quips, there is something else stronger and more rigorous. She goes to the ballet at Covent Garden with the Queen Mother and notices that throughout the entire performance, the Queen Mother's back 'never once touched the chair.' That is how the Duchess is too--never a slouch, never a saggy moment, even in grief alert, attentive, observant." --Adam Nicolson on HOME TO ROOST, The Spectator
"One of the great twentieth-century correspondences . . . Bursting with wit and conviviality." --James Purdon on IN TEARING HASTE, The Observer (London)
"Beguiling . . . Hugely enjoyable . . . What these letters so wonderfully demonstrate is an unfailing appetite for life." --Anne Chisholm on IN TEARING HASTE, The Spectator
"Funny, loving, sparkly, snarky, heartbreaking, chilling, gossipy, wise." --Amanda Lovell on THE MITFORDS, O, The Oprah Magazine
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Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire, is the youngest of the famously witty brood that includes the writers Jessica and Nancy. Wait for Me! chronicles her remarkable life, from an eccentric but happy childhood roaming the Oxfordshire countryside, to tea with her sister Unity and Adolf Hitler in 1937, to her marriage to Andrew Cavendish, the second son of the Duke of Devonshire. Written with intense warmth, charm, and perception, Wait for Me! is a unique portrait of an age of tumult, splendor, and change. "Touching . . . moving . . . [and] compelling as a portrait of a vanishing world" (The Wall Street Journal).
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