Wigs on the Green.

Bookseller Notes

Her scarcest novel, a roman clef lampooning the far-right, which caused a 'considerable amount of bad feeling within her own family' (ODNB) - its principal target being the British Union of Fascists, whose leader, Oswald Mosley, was then in a relationship (and would soon after marry) the author's sister Diana. Another sister, Unity, was then aligning herself with the Nazi party in Germany - and appears in the novel as Eugenia Malmains.The combination of name and location in the ownership inscription on this copy points to a close association with the author: resident in the small Wiltshire village since 1928 were the painter Henry Lamb and his wife, the author Pansy Pakenham (her maiden name). She was a close friend of Nancy Mitford and of Evelyn Waugh, whose portrait her husband painted - he also painted Diana Mosley.