Do Admit

The celebrated yet scandalous Mitford sisters have filled the pages of many books, but Pond brings them to life again with exuberant art and sly humour

Red

An exemplary group biography with all the boring bits cut out... Pond's illustrations are perfect, gorgeous and intricate, occasionally beautifully surreal... [she] shows us the Mitfords afresh in often poignant and beautifully nuanced chiaroscuro. It's often absolutely hilarious too... A total treat - bravo.

India Knight, Sunday Times

An imaginative, often cinematic romp... Do Admit: The Mitford Sisters and Me sprawls with spats, rifts, scandalous affairs, and political intrigue.

New York Times

Pond’s witty visuals and sharp prose make Do Admit the best group biography of the Mitford Sisters to date.

Los Angeles Times

A spectacular, dizzying romp through the tumult of the twentieth century. Her kinetic drawings and boisterous, endlessly inventive layouts somehow bring coherence to the sprawling, branching plots of her subjects’ lives. The visual world Pond creates is phantasmagoric, drawing on deep veins of vintage graphic design. And her grip on the words is equally deft. She’s clearly spent so much time steeping in the rich textual legacy that this family has left the world—their books, letters and secret family lingo—that she begins to sound suspiciously like a seventh member of this sophisticated and scandalous sorority. Brava.

Alison Bechdel, author of FUN HOME

A splendid book of geopolitics, jolly hockey sticks and gossipy asides

Guardian, *Books of the Year*

Do Admit!...really breaks new ground… It has just the right lightness of touch and sensitive insight required when dealing with a story which combines eccentricity, glamour and tragedy in equal measure

Daily Express, *Books of the Year*