[3] The book includes pen portraits of leading figures that featured prominently in Mosley's life.

These include Lytton Strachey and Dora Carrington, former neighbours and friends of hers.

Violet Hammersley, an author, close friend of her mother's and prominent figure in childhood.

Lord Berners, a close personal friend she stayed with often at Faringdon House.

[1] The collection was favourably reviewed by The Glasgow Herald, describing Mosley as ″consistently witty in a generous way that indulges neither in sarcasm nor bitterness and her book contains gems of ever-so-English understatement and Mitfordese snobbery.″[4] This illustration features a detail from Henry Lamb's portrait of Mosley, painted in 1932 when she was still married to Bryan Guinness.