Please note today's program has been cancelled.

Join us for this month's book discussion, new members always welcome! Copies of the book can be picked up on our holds shelf next to Circulation for checkout.

We will be meeting both in person and via Zoom. For questions or meeting link please contact Caroline at cbadowski@westerlylibrary.org.

This is a monthly recurring program. Please check our events calendar for additional dates and times.

The Six: the lives of the Mitford Sisters by Laura Thompson 

The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald Mosley; the fourth idolized Hitler and shot herself in the head when Britain declared war on Germany; the fifth was a member of the American Communist Party; the sixth became Duchess of Devonshire. They were the Mitford sisters: Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica, and Deborah. Born into country-house privilege in the early years of the 20th century, they became prominent as "bright young things" in the high society of interwar London. Then, as the shadows crept over 1930s Europe, the stark--and very public--differences in their outlooks came to symbolize the political polarities of a dangerous decade.