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By Mary Lovell

In the mid-1930s, when the Mitford sisters were wreaking their social rampage throughout Europe, their father, David, would rhetorically shrug to friends, "I'm normal, my wife is normal, but my daughters are each more foolish than the other." And Sydney, their mother, would chastise them, saying, "Whenever I see a headline beginning with 'Peer's Daughter,' I know one of you children has been in trouble." That just about sums up the lives of these six remarkable sisters: Nancy, Diana, Unity, Pam, Jessica ("Decca"), and Deborah ("Debo"). Our age may be driven by "bytes," but the early years of the twentieth century in England were socially driven by their own BYTs--"Beautiful Young Things"--and the Mitford girls were the epitome of the breed. (Boolist Review)