Excerpt from The Mitford Affair by Marie Benedict, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

He pulls away from her, staring at her face but not ceasing to dance. So she continues with the steps. After all, they are drawing close to Diana, and Unity does not want to disappoint her beloved sister.

But when they circle close enough to Diana to touch and Unity glances over at her for an approving nod, she realizes that her sister is oblivious to her presence. Diana is engrossed in a conversation with a man who is somehow familiar to Unity but she can't instantly place him—­and they are standing inappropriately close. And then, in a rush, his name comes to her; he is that fascist gadabout, as Farve calls him, Sir Oswald Mosley. Why in God's green earth would Diana be talking so closely to him?

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