Summary
A biography that captures both the hilarity and pathos of an extraordinary woman and a remarkable life.
Nancy Mitford was witty, intelligent, often acerbic, a great tease and an acute observer of upper-class English idiosyncrasies. With the publication of her novels, above all The Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate, and The Blessing, she became a huge bestseller and a household name.
An inspired letter writer, she wrote almost daily to a wide va…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099429555 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099429551 |
| Author: | Selina Hastings |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 7 June 2002 |
| Weight: | 213g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Vintage Lives |
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Critics Review
“Selina Hastings has written a book which Nancy Mitford would have been proud to write herself.” A.N. Wilson “Very perceptive and often very funny.” Peter Ackroyd
Selina Hastings has written a book which Nancy Mitford would have been proud to write herself – A.N. Wilson
Very perceptive and often very funny – Peter Ackroyd
Absorbing and vividly written * Catholic Herald *
An impeccable biography * Literary Review *
About The Author
Selina Hastings
Selina Hastings is a writer and journalist, biographer of Somerset Maugham, Evelyn Waugh, Nancy Mitford and Rosamund Lehmann and, in The Red Earl, of her father. She is the winner of the Marsh Biography Prize, the Spear’s Award for Outstanding Achievement and the Biographers’ Club Lifetime Services to Biography Award.
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