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...Nancy Mitford worked in the shop during the second world war, helping to establish the store as a literary hotspot....
...Hill Books, where Nancy Mitford once worked....
...Its first president, Benjamin Heywood, was not, strictly speaking, a man of the sciences or the arts. He was a banker....
...“A library is your story on a shelf,” says Nicky Dunne, manager of Heywood Hill, the London bookshop where Nancy Mitford used to work....
...She is mother of his four children (Nancy, Elwen, Florence and Ivan who died aged six) and a significant political influence....
...Her shop is run like a salon, with an amusingly chaotic mood not dissimilar to the Curzon Street bookshop Heywood Hill, which Nancy Mitford famously turned into Mayfair’s social hub during the Blitz....
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