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Counting My Chickens: and Other Home Thoughts (Hardcover)

by Duchess of Devonshire Deborah Cavendish (Author), Sophia Topley (Editor), Susan Hill (Editor), Will Topley (Illustrator), Tom Stoppard (Introduction)
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  • Hardcover: 164 pages
  • Publisher: Long Barn Books, Ebrington,Gloucestershire; Reprint edition (1 Sep 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1902421051
  • ISBN-13: 978-1902421056
  • Product Dimensions: 20 x 13.4 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,672 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Witty and pithy, 6 Dec 2001
I couldn't put this book down! Deborah Devonshire is a wonderfully successful business woman and an author with a touch of the Mitford eccentricity. I particularly liked her description of her handbag which she described as "septic". I have one the same. I managed to obtain a signed copy from Chatsworth House - she is a lovely person, taking time to chat to bookbuyers and asking what they would like her to write. I would highly recommend her other books, The Garden at Chatsworth and The House at Chatsworth.
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5.0 out of 5 stars laugh out loud read, 3 Feb 2008
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The Duchess has that touch of Mitford wit that can also be seen in Nancy & Jessica's writings. Filled with pithy observations about aspects of life in Britain and history, I was laughing out loud at her recountments of ancestral adventures (brothers sharing one hotel room with a dead body, everyone crying at the birth of another girl) and encounters with the general public ("Saw the duchess in the garden, she looked quite normal."; "That's the Dowager Duchess. It was taken the year she died."). A gem of a book!
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3.0 out of 5 stars Ain't No Letters, 29 Aug 2008
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I think she comes across in her sisters letters as an astonishly funny, bright, informed woman. Sadly being exposed as sole author of a book she comes across as small, not amusing and a little tight. This isn't the Debo Mitford that described the Communist sister Decca's house as "It was small, box like, with the doors painted as a child would, one door red, the other blue. There was the oddest odour hanging around the house and then Decca said there was a Negro family living in the basement and I thought, well that is it then". Funny, odd and history. She is candid and charming, just not here, get the Letters between Six Sisters for the best, oddest snapshot of the 20th Century, not this, it is a little dull
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