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star and a half, The author of this text claims to be a journalist, and also claims to have been a "close friend" of Pamela Mitford Jackson, However, there isn't much to back up these claims, In terms of journalism, Alexander needed a strong editor at the very least, The book is scrappy, leaping back and forth in time and place, as well as extremely repetitive, What little information is given about the supposed subject is given at least four times over, in exactly the same words, I finally gave up when one of the final chapters retells the story of how Pamela took in her nephews, and the reasons she did so, and how she had to sacrifice her breeding bull.
. . for the third or

fourth time, In the exact words she used before, Journalist

Alexander also claims to have been a "close friend" of Pamela's, and yet there isn't much to bear out that claim, aside from repeated anecdotes that point up that Mrs Jackson was tightfisted and not above smuggling things into Britain.
In reality, we discover Alexander worked as her daily cleaner for a few years, Even though she obviously had access to the family correspondence, she doesn't quote from Pam's letters, preferring to tell us about the contents in her Alexander's own words.
Why is that preferable

If you've read the other "Mitford books", particularly sitelinkWait for Me! and sitelinkHons and Rebels, you'll have read most of this one already.
Alexander quotes without quoting most of the time, again scarcely rewording great swathes of other people's writing, Even when she does write for herself, some of it doesn't make much sense, She refers again repeatedly to Diana and Moseley living in "a partially deserted inn, " Partially deserted Does that mean that a part of the inn was open for business If it means part of it was uninhabitable and they rented and used the habitable part, it would have helped if that were made clear.
But never mind Alexander doesn't even know what a "collop" is, asking the reader if that is a specific dish, "or a rare cut of meat" Even I know that collops have been around in the British countryside since the Middle Ages a quick Google will tell you that a collop is a slice of meat, often bacon.
And I'm not even a journalist!

Very disappointing, I got very nearly to the end when I realised Alexander was just waffling and padding a very sketchy knowledge of her subject, I'm done here. my favorite Mitford
In which Pamela Mitford is established as being nice, and a good cook in other words, despite an apparently determined effort by the author to push the least famous of the Mitford sisters into the limelight and establish her as being quite as interesting as her sisters, this book says nothing about her that you wouldn't learn in a biography about, well, any one of her sisters.
There is definitely some rosetintedness here Diana Alexander knew Pamela personally, clearly liked her very much, and fails at any time to draw out any faults in her character.
At the same time, she doesn't seem to have quite enough to say about her to actually fill the whole book, and so the same facts are repeated Derek's tragic backstory, Nancy's cruel teasing, Pamela's amazing memory for past meals over and over.


A pleasant read, but probably only a necessary one for true Mitford completionists, I picked this up in a bookshop having long ago run out of new Mitford books to read, It's a fairly slight book, if I'm honest most of the information in it I recognised from other sources, In any case, I think there's a reason why no separate book has been written about Pamela Mitford before, There's also an irritating habit of repetition key facts, such as Pamela taking care of Diana's children when she was in prison, appear over and over again in chapters on different themes, as though the author thinks she is writing for a class of inattentive schoolchildren who need constant recaps.


The author knew Pamela Mitford personally in her old age and there is a certain amount of championing of her, defending her niceness, her looks, her adventurous spirit and, slightly unconvincingly, her humour.
But perhaps because the author's personal knowledge is confined to her subject's last decade and there is no indication that she the author has a background in historical research, there is a definite dearth of early biographical detail.
One to read with reasonably low expectations, perhaps, in which case it is a pleasant enough journey through a largely happy life, This was a really interesting story about the Mitfords, however it didn't focus on Pamela as much as I expected, Also, the author's close friendship with Pamela Jackson I feel has affected her writing Pamela is portrayed as being a saintly woman who did absolutely nothing wrong in her entire life.
Also, you get the feeling through reading the book that Ms, Alexander does not like Pamela's younger sister Jessica I feel her personal opinions slightly ruined the book for me, which otherwise would have been a straight four from me.
Highly repetitive and badly written, Obviously Diana was in awe of Pamela but we really learnt nothing new, Her editor needs to be fired, A bit of a missed opportunity, I'm afraid, Perhaps there really isn't that much to say about Pam! She did feature on the fringes of the Bloomsbury Group, but there is not much about that here, and quite a lot of the book is really about the others.
Not much structure, either, and some annoying errors Attlee is spelt wrong throughout, There are some funny stories nonetheless, and some nice pictures, The author knew Pam in later life, and the anecdotes come to life a bit more, but otherwise this just rates as OK,/The other Mitford: Pamela's Story, Diana Alexander. The History Press.páginas.

Menuda sinvergüenza la autora, Debió pasar un total de tres minutos con Pamela porque nada más cuenta lo obvio que todos sabemos, que era buena cocinera, que siguió siendo muy amiga de su ex después del divorcio.
. . y es que claro, para una Mitford que lleva una vida discreta y tranquila, pues qué esperamos,

Las hermanas a topísimo con la vida y ella viviendo feliz a su bola, Así que eldel libro es contarnos cosas del resto de las hermanas, Para este viaje no me hacía falta tanta alforja, sinceramente,

Pasad de largo y no miréis atrás, Pamela Mitford was often thought of as the sister who didn't really do anything interesting, As this book shows that is quite wrong, Wonderful book. A delightful and interesting book about the quiet member of the Mitford family, no less a person and with just a strong a character as her flamboyant siblings.
The other sisters are well documented and it was good to read about the woman in the background so to speak, Pamela was really the glue who held them all together and her utter decency shines through, The others could be rogues and wretches or hopeless misguided, but she plodded on and lived life more or less on her terms too, as her sisters had done, but quieter.
Amazing courage in smaller dimensions I wouldn't fancy taking on some of her driving duties, let alone after, There was more depth to Pamela's story than seems to appear with the others, Excellent. The subject matter somewhat redeemed this, but it's clumsily written, with a scattergun approach to chronology, and with far too much repetition, Although it claims to be about Pamela, it's really as much about the other sisters and the whole family, and doesn't manage to make Pamela really come alive as an individual.
Not at all a wellwritten book, Quite disappointing! I really looked forward to reading this but it is just a bad rehash of all the other, much better Mitford books, I didn't learn very much about Pamela that I hadn't read in the " Letters Between Six Sisters" amp it was more about the other girls, Pamela Jackson, née Mitford, is perhaps the least well known of the illustrious Mitford sisters, and yet her story is just as captivating, and more revealing.
Despite shunning the bright city lights that her sisters so desperately craved, she was very much involved in the activities of her extraordinary family, picking up the many pieces when things went disastrously wrong which they so often did.
Joining her sisters on many adventures, including their meeting with Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany, Pamela quietly observed the bizarre, funny and often tragic events that took place around her.
Through her eyes, we are given a view of the Mitfords never seen before,
Loyal to the core, she possessed the constancy and kindness that underpinned the wilder exploits of the Mitford family, Indeed, innocence, along with courage and kindness, was one of her remarkable qualities, But it was the innocence of a woman who had lived and suffered, loved and lost, and overcome adversity,
Journalist Diana Alexander, who was Pamelas friend for many years, here reveals the unknown Mitford, or, as her lifelong admirer John Betjeman described her, Gentle Pamela.
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