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Life in a Cold Climate : Nancy Mitford; The Biography, Hardback Book

Life in a Cold Climate : Nancy Mitford; The Biography Hardback

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New York Times bestselling author Laura Thompson turns her eye to the iconic and enigmatic Nancy Mitford.

Nancy Mitford was, in the words of her sister Lady Diana Mosley, ';very complex.' Her highly autobiographical early work, the biographies and novels of her more mature French period, her journalism, and the vast body of letters to her family, to friends such as Evelyn Waugh, and to the great love of her life, Gaston Palewski, all tell an intriguing story.

Drawing from these, as well as conversations with Mitford's two surviving sisters, acquaintances, and colleagues, prizewinning author Laura Thompson has fashioned a portrait of a contradictory and courageous woman. Approaching her subject with wit, perspicacity, and huge affection, Thompson makes her serious points lightly, eschewing cliches about the eccentricities of the Mitford clan. Life in a Cold Climate is full of the sound of Mitfordian laughter; but also tells the often paradoxical and complex story beneath the smiling and ever-elegant faade.

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  • Format:Hardback
  • Pages:448 pages
  • Publisher:Pegasus Books
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  • ISBN:9781643133034

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  • Format:Hardback
  • Pages:448 pages
  • Publisher:Pegasus Books
  • Publication Date:
  • ISBN:9781643133034