The Mitford Diaries

Available March 2004

Handmade. Hilarious. Fancy.

by Kris Rothstein with five illustrations by Sam Macklin. It's 5 1/2 inches square, 35 pages, hand bound with a choice of two handmade paper covers, chinoiserie (blue) or firenze (gold) and printed on parchment style paper. Order here.

Bridget Jones meets "Brideshead Revisited" in a comical story about a eccentric family in early twentieth-century England. Read the fictional diaries of the seven Mitford children, all based on their real, extraordinary lives. Jessica is a tough teenaged Communist. She dreams of running away to fight Fascists like her sisters Unity and Diana who hang around Berlin cafes trying to meet Hitler. Nancy longs for greatness and her sharp tongue is always ready to draw family blood. Deborah doesn't know why no one can introduce her to a nice single Lord and Pamela just wants to be left alone with her chickens. Discover Britain's most amusing aristocrats.