Her account of her adult years is grouped by topic - the Kennedys, for example - and feels a bit perfunctory despite some wonderful stories. The best bits here are about her childhood, even though we've read it all before from Decca, Nancy and Diana. 'Any book by a Mitford is sure to be fun. It is irresistible listening and will join the shelf of Mitford classics to delight audiences for years to come. With its intense warmth and charm, Wait for Me! is a unique portrait of an age and an unprecedented look at the rhythms of life inside one of the great aristocratic families of England. Her friendship with that family would last through triumph and tragedy. Her life would change utterly with his unexpected inheritance of the title and vast estates after the wartime death of his brother, who had married Kick Kennedy, the beloved sister of John F. Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire, is the youngest of the famously witty brood that includes the writers Jessica and Nancy, who wrote when Deborah was born, 'How disgusting of the poor darling to go and be a girl.' Deborah's effervescent memoir Wait for Me! chronicles her remarkable life, from an eccentric but happy childhood in the Oxfordshire countryside, to tea with Adolf Hitler and her controversially political sister Unity in 1937, to her marriage to the second son of the Duke of Devonshire.

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