Home to Roost: And Other Peckings - Couverture rigide

Devonshire, Deborah

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1848541899 ISBN 13 : 9781848541894

Editeur : John Murray, 2009

Synopsis

'My father would not have wasted time reading - a trait I have inherited from him.'

The unmistakeable voice of Deborah Devonshire, the youngest of the Mitford sisters, rings out of this second volume of her occasional writings.

As broad and eclectic as her long and eventful life, the pieces range from a ringside view of John F. Kennedy's inauguration and funeral, a valedictory for her local post office, the 1938 London season, Christmas at Chatsworth and the hazards of shopping for clothes when your eyesight is failing.

Affectionate, shrewd and uproariously funny, her no-nonsense, bang-on-the-nail observations are as good as any antidepressant.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: John Murray
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1848541899
• ISBN 13: 9781848541894
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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