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Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Vintage, has snaped up a Mitford sisters graphic biography from cartoonist Mimi Pond.
UK & Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, to Do Admit: Making Sense of the Mitford Sisters were acquired from Evan Brown and Samantha Haywood at Transatlantic Agency on behalf of Drawn & Quarterly (world rights).
As a young girl living in California in the 1960s, Mimi Pond fell in love with the Mitford sisters. She was fascinated by Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica and Deborah Mitford’s societal glitz, pageantry and scandal. The sisters were high-society debutantes known for rubbing shoulders with some of history’s most infamous fascists and communists, as well as writers, nicknamers, chicken-raising homebodies, "scathing wits and passionate adventurers in the maelstrom of the 20th century".
The publisher said the book has been drawn with "inimitable artistic flair and a mischievous affinity for the decadent and grandly declining aristocracy", as Pond tells the story of the sisters.
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Dan Franklin, associate publisher of Cape Graphic Novels, said: "If you think you know everything about the Mitford sisters, every detail of their lives, think again. In Do Admit, Mimi Pond tells their stories with such wit, such sharpness, in such stunning drawings that it is as if you are hearing them for the first time. It is an extraordinary achievement."
Pond said: "I am beyond proud that Jonathan Cape is publishing my graphic novel biography of the Mitford sisters. Not only am I excited to have a British publisher for this most British of subjects, I blush to find myself in the company of other graphic novelists I admire, such as Daniel Clowes, Posy Simmonds, Alison Bechdel, Charles Burns and Kate Beaton. I hope my take on the lives of the Mitford sisters pays homage to these extraordinary women."
The book will be published in October 2025.