{"product_id":"9781681371245","title":"Hons and Rebels","description":"Jessica  Mitford, the great muckraking journalist, was part of a legendary  English aristocratic family. Her sisters included Nancy, doyenne of the  1920s London smart set and a noted novelist and biographer; Diana, wife  to the English fascist chief Sir Oswald Mosley; Unity, who fell head  over in heels in love with Hitler; and Deborah, later the Duchess of  Devonshire. Jessica swung left and moved to America, where she took part  in the civil rights movement and wrote her classic exposé of the  undertaking business, \u003ci\u003eThe American Way of Death\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHons and Rebels\u003c\/i\u003e is the hugely entertaining tale of Mitford's upbringing, which was, as  she dryly remarks, “not exactly conventional. . . Debo spent silent  hours in the chicken house learning to do an exact imitation of the look  of pained concentration that comes over a hen's face when it is laying  an egg. . . . Unity and I made up a complete language called  Boudledidge, unintelligible to any but ourselves, in which we translated  various dirty songs (for safe singing in front of the grown-ups).” But  Mitford found her family's world as smothering as it was singular and,  determined to escape it, she eloped with Esmond Romilly, Churchill's  nephew, to go fight in the Spanish Civil War. The ensuing scandal, in  which a British destroyer was dispatched to recover the two truants,  inspires some of Mitford's funniest, and most pointed, pages.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA family portrait, a tale of youthful folly and high-spirited adventure, a study in social history, a love story, \u003ci\u003eHons and Rebels\u003c\/i\u003e is a delightful contribution to the autobiographer's art.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47157233746160,"sku":"9781681371245","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781681371245_p0.jpg?v=1763693225","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781681371245","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}