Hons and Rebels

A journalist paints a portrait of her legendary English aristocratic family in this memoir “full of downright hilariousness, crackling brash humor, and enchanting turns-of-the-phrase” ( San Francisco Chronicle ). “Reads like extravagantly mannered fiction, except that it is all fabulously true . . . touching and wildly funny.” — Tatler Jessica Mitford, the great muckraking journalist, was part of a legendary English aristocratic family. Her sisters included Nancy, doyenne of the 1920s London sma