Recently a young journalist came to interview me about what I was doing the day war broke out. During the course of the interview I recounted the deaths of my only brother, my husband's only brother, a brother in law and my four best friends. "So," she said, did the war affect you in any way?

Wait For Me!: Memoirs of the Youngest Mitford Sister (ed. Hachette UK, 2010) - ISBN: 9781848544574