Wait for Me

Devonshire Deborah

ISBN 10: 1473617359 / ISBN 13: 9781473617353

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Wait for Me
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1473617359
• ISBN 13: 9781473617353
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1758414307.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: 47263635
• Signed: 9/21/2025 12:25:07 AM
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Synopsis

At the age of ninety, Debo (as she is known to all her friends) looks back on a life lived at a cracking pace.Deborah Devonshire is a natural writer with a knack for the telling phrase and for hitting the nail on the head. She tells the story of her upbringing, lovingly and wittily describing her parents (so memorably fictionalised by her sister Nancy); she talks candidly about her brother and sisters, and their politics (while not being at all political herself), finally setting the record straight. Throughout the book she writes brilliantly about the country and her deep attachment to it and those who live and work in it. As Duchess of Devonshire, Debo played an active role in restoring and overseeing the day-to-day running of the family houses and gardens, and in developing commercial enterprises at Chatsworth. She tells poignantly of the deaths of three of her children, as well as her husband's battle with alcohol addiction.Wait For Me is enthralling and a total joy, full of the author's sympathetic wit (which she is not afraid to use on herself).

About the Author

Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, was brought up in Oxfordshire, England. In 1950 her husband, Andrew, the 11th Duke of Devonshire, inherited extensive estates in Yorkshire and Ireland as well as Chatsworth, the family seat in Derbyshire, and Deborah became chatelaine of one of England’s great houses. She is the author of Counting My Chickens and Home to Roost, among other books, and her letters have been collected in The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters and In Tearing Haste: The Correspondence of the Duchess of Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor. Following her husband’s death in 2004, she moved to a village on the Chatsworth estate.