Author:
Devonshire, Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford Cavendish, Duchess of, 1920-2014.
Imprint:New York : Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2011.
Description:vii, 359 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:Counting my chickens was first published in 2001 by Long Barn Books, Great Britain ; Home to roost was first published in 2009 by John Murray (Publishers), Great Britain.
Note:Counting my chickens -- Home to roost -- Newly laid.
Note:All in One Basket" combines two earlier collections, "Counting My Chickens "and "Home to Roost," its sequel, which was never published in the United States. In these pages, we hear anecdotes about famous friends from Evelyn Waugh to John F. Kennedy; tales of struggle and success at Chatsworth, England's greatest stately home; and of course the tales of her beloved chickens, which the Duchess began raising as a child for pocket money. In "All in One Basket," glamorous recollections happily coexist with practical insights into country life, and the result is a revelatory, intimate portrait of a woman described by "The New York Times" as a "national treasure."
