Love in a Cold Climate & The Pursuit of Love
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- Hardcover
488 pages
- Release Date
3 January 2024
Summary
Love, family, politics - but above all, love - two comic masterpieces from the eldest of the endlessly fascinating Mitford sisters set in glamorous aristocratic circles between two world wars. As recently seen on TV.
Nancy Mitford modelled the characters in her best-known novels on her own unconventional (and at the time of writing, notorious) family. We are introduced to the Radletts through the eyes of their cousin, Fanny (‘the Bolter’s girl’), on one of her frequent visits to their…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841594040 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1841594040 |
| Author: | Nancy Mitford, Laura Thompson |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 488 |
| Release Date: | 3 January 2024 |
| Weight: | 607g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 135mm x 30mm |
| Series: | Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics |
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About The Author
Nancy Mitford
Nancy Mitford was born in London on November 28 1904, daughter of the second Baron Redesdale, and the eldest of six girls. Her sisters included Lady Diana Mosley; Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire and Jessica, who immortalised the Mitford family in her autobiography Hons and Rebels. The Mitford sisters came of age during the Roaring Twenties and wartime in London, and were well known for their beauty, upper-class bohemianism or political allegiances. Nancy contributed columns to The Lady and the Sunday Times, as well as writing a series of popular novels including The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, which detailed the high-society affairs of the six Radlett sisters. While working in London during the Blitz, Nancy met and fell in love with Gaston Palewski, General de Gaulle’s chief of staff, and eventually moved to Paris to be near him. In the 1950s she began writing historical biographies - her life of Louis XIV, The Sun King, became an international bestseller. Nancy completed her last book, Frederick the Great, before she died of Hodgkin’s disease on 30 June 1973.
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