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‘A total treat – bravo’ Sunday Times

‘A spectacular, dizzying romp’ Alison Bechdel, Fun Home

Outrageous, passionate and glamourous – a stunning graphic biography of the six sisters who blazed their way through the 20th century, beguiling their peers, the press and then the rest of the world

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.

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An exemplary group biography with all the boring bits cut out… Pond’s illustrations are perfect, gorgeous and intricate, occasionally beautifully surreal… [she] shows us the Mitfords afresh in often poignant and beautifully nuanced chiaroscuro. It’s often absolutely hilarious too… A total treat – bravo. — India Knight * Sunday Times * The celebrated yet scandalous Mitford sisters have filled the pages of many books, but Pond brings them to life again with exuberant art and sly humour * Red * An imaginative, often cinematic romp… Do Admit: The Mitford Sisters and Me sprawls with spats, rifts, scandalous affairs, and political intrigue. * New York Times * Pond’s witty visuals and sharp prose make Do Admit the best group biography of the Mitford Sisters to date. * Los Angeles Times * A spectacular, dizzying romp through the tumult of the twentieth century. Her kinetic drawings and boisterous, endlessly inventive layouts somehow bring coherence to the sprawling, branching plots of her subjects’ lives. The visual world Pond creates is phantasmagoric, drawing on deep veins of vintage graphic design. And her grip on the words is equally deft. She’s clearly spent so much time steeping in the rich textual legacy that this family has left the world-their books, letters and secret family lingo-that she begins to sound suspiciously like a seventh member of this sophisticated and scandalous sorority. Brava. — Alison Bechdel, author of FUN HOME