RaveThe Spectator (UK)Exhaustively researched and thorough ... Kaplan’s account is solid, even-handed and, in the end, impressive. It confirms the fact that Decca was surely the only one of all the Mitfords worth taking seriously.
Anne Glenconner
PositiveThe Times Literary SupplementThe great question raised by this sparkling, endearing and alarming memoir is whether the upper-class English habit of repressing emotion and ignoring trouble for as long as possible is an admirable form of courage or a reprehensible recipe for disaster ... It has been known for the survivor of a difficult marriage to write about it as an act of revenge; Anne Glenconner, sweet-natured, generous-spirited and above all determined not to dwell, has not done so. Her book records the best as well as the worst consequences of the currently unfashionable stiff upper lip.
