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Weidenfeld & Nicolson has acquired the memoir of Lady Pamela Hicks, daughter of Earl Mountbatten of Burma and his wife Edwina.
World rights were bought by publishing director Kirsty Dunseath, from Eugenie Furniss at William Morris Endeavour.
Dunseath said: "Lady Pamela Hicks is a natural storyteller with a unique story to tell. Her memoir will be a mesmerising evocation of her youth in India—a key period of history seen through the eyes of a young person—as well as her upbringing in one of the most interesting and influential
families of the time."
Lady Pamela Mountbatten was born at the end of the Twenties, and grew up around her parents' social circle including figures such as Noel Coward and Sir Winston Churchill. After the Second World War, Lady Mountbatten lived in India, where her parents were the last Viceroy and Vicereine She was Lady in Waiting to the Queen both when she was a princess and after her coronation, and in the 1960s she married designer David Hicks.
The book will be published in spring 2012. Her first book, India Remembered, was published in 2007 by Pavilion.