Due for release: 2 Mar 27
Last one
Do Admit
£25.00
As a young girl living in sun-bleached 1960s suburban California, Mimi Pond fell in love with the Mitford sisters. Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica and Deborah Mitford brought society glitz, pageantry, scandal, and real (rainy) weather to her own prosaic life. High society debutantes known for rubbing shoulders with some of history's most infamous fascists and communists, the sisters were also, in turn, gifted writers, inveterate nicknamers, chicken-raising homebodies, scathing wits, and passionate adventurers in the maelstrom of the 20th century. Drawn with inimitable artistic flair and a mischievous affinity for the decadent and grandly declining aristocracy, Mimi Pond brings the Mitfords to life in this glittering and lovingly researched family biography.
ISBN: 9781787335561
- Page Count 444
- Format Hardback
- Age Range N/A
- Published 02/10/2025
'A total treat - bravo' Sunday Times
'A spectacular, dizzying romp' Alison Bechdel, Fun Home
Outrageous, passionate and glamourous - a stunning graphic biography of the six sisters who blazed their way through the 20th century, beguiling their peers, the press and then the rest of the world
As a young girl living in sun-bleached 1960s suburban California, Mimi Pond fell in love with the Mitford sisters. Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica and Deborah Mitford brought society glitz, pageantry, scandal, and real (rainy) weather to her own prosaic life.
High society debutantes known for rubbing shoulders with some of history's most infamous fascists and communists, the sisters were also, in turn, gifted writers, inveterate nicknamers, chicken-raising homebodies, scathing wits, and passionate adventurers in the maelstrom of the 20th century.
Drawn with inimitable artistic flair and a mischievous affinity for the decadent and grandly declining aristocracy, Mimi Pond brings the Mitfords to life in this glittering and lovingly researched family biography.
An exemplary group biography with all the boring bits cut out... Pond's illustrations are perfect, gorgeous and intricate, occasionally beautifully surreal... [she] shows us the Mitfords afresh in often poignant and beautifully nuanced chiaroscuro. It's often absolutely hilarious too... A total treat - bravo.
Sunday Times - India Knight
The celebrated yet scandalous Mitford sisters have filled the pages of many books, but Pond brings them to life again with exuberant art and sly humour
Red
An imaginative, often cinematic romp... Do Admit: The Mitford Sisters and Me sprawls with spats, rifts, scandalous affairs, and political intrigue.
New York Times
Pond's witty visuals and sharp prose make Do Admit the best group biography of the Mitford Sisters to date.
Los Angeles Times
A spectacular, dizzying romp through the tumult of the twentieth century. Her kinetic drawings and boisterous, endlessly inventive layouts somehow bring coherence to the sprawling, branching plots of her subjects' lives. The visual world Pond creates is phantasmagoric, drawing on deep veins of vintage graphic design. And her grip on the words is equally deft. She's clearly spent so much time steeping in the rich textual legacy that this family has left the world-their books, letters and secret family lingo-that she begins to sound suspiciously like a seventh member of this sophisticated and scandalous sorority. Brava.
Alison Bechdel, author of FUN HOME
A splendid book of geopolitics, jolly hockey sticks and gossipy asides
Guardian, *Books of the Year*
Do Admit!...really breaks new ground… It has just the right lightness of touch and sensitive insight required when dealing with a story which combines eccentricity, glamour and tragedy in equal measure
Daily Express, *Books of the Year*
This fascinating graphic biography of the six women is possibly the most colourful story ever told using only blue ink. It is such a compelling version…you're bound to come away with a deeper understanding of their place in history
Cambridge Edition
Sunday Times - India Knight
The celebrated yet scandalous Mitford sisters have filled the pages of many books, but Pond brings them to life again with exuberant art and sly humour
Red
An imaginative, often cinematic romp... Do Admit: The Mitford Sisters and Me sprawls with spats, rifts, scandalous affairs, and political intrigue.
New York Times
Pond's witty visuals and sharp prose make Do Admit the best group biography of the Mitford Sisters to date.
Los Angeles Times
A spectacular, dizzying romp through the tumult of the twentieth century. Her kinetic drawings and boisterous, endlessly inventive layouts somehow bring coherence to the sprawling, branching plots of her subjects' lives. The visual world Pond creates is phantasmagoric, drawing on deep veins of vintage graphic design. And her grip on the words is equally deft. She's clearly spent so much time steeping in the rich textual legacy that this family has left the world-their books, letters and secret family lingo-that she begins to sound suspiciously like a seventh member of this sophisticated and scandalous sorority. Brava.
Alison Bechdel, author of FUN HOME
A splendid book of geopolitics, jolly hockey sticks and gossipy asides
Guardian, *Books of the Year*
Do Admit!...really breaks new ground… It has just the right lightness of touch and sensitive insight required when dealing with a story which combines eccentricity, glamour and tragedy in equal measure
Daily Express, *Books of the Year*
This fascinating graphic biography of the six women is possibly the most colourful story ever told using only blue ink. It is such a compelling version…you're bound to come away with a deeper understanding of their place in history
Cambridge Edition
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