The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

by Erik Larson

She read them the works of Jane Austen, likening Mary and Judy to those “giddy girls” from Pride and Prejudice, Kitty and Lydia Bennett, “who were forever off to Meryton to see what regiments had appeared locally!” as Mary later wrote.