I read a lot of books in the course of researching this novel but am especially grateful to:
- Diana Mosley, Anne de Courcy (Vintage, 2004)
- Queer London, Matt Houlbrook (University of Chicago Press, 2005)
- To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914–1949, Ian Kershaw (Penguin, 2015)
- Hons and Rebels, Jessica Mitford (Phoenix, 2007)
- A Life of Contrasts, Diana Mosley (Gibson Square Books, 2002)
- The Mitfords: Letters Between the Six Sisters, edited by Charlotte Mosley (Fourth Estate, 2007)
- We Danced All Night: A Social History of Britain Between the Wars, Martin Pugh (The Bodley Head, 2008)
- Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History, Tori Telfer (John Blake, 2017)
- Life in a Cold Climate: Nancy Mitford, the Biography, Laura Thompson (Review, 2003)