Auteur: Deborah Devonshire

In spring 1956, Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire – youngest of the six legendary Mitford sisters – invited the writer and war hero Patrick Leigh Fermor to visit Lismore Castle, the Devonshires’ house i …

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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 …

Entertaining, instructive, thought-provoking and hilarious, the unmistakeable voice of Deborah Devonshire rings out of this volume which combines her two collections of ‘occasional’ writings – Home t …