Nancy Mitford: A memoir (A Cass Canfield book) - Hardcover

Acton, Harold Mario Mitchell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060100184 ISBN 13: 9780060100186

Publisher: Harper & Row, 1975

Synopsis

Special West End Hardback Edition of the Trade Paperback; this only available biography of Nancy Mitford in the year when her work is being relaunched and televised, by her friend Sir Harold Acton. 'A wonderful portrait of her' The Duchess of Devonshire; 'Gossipy, affectionate and immensely revealing...a hotline to Nancy Mitford...filled with her deliciously funny voice.' Deborah Moggach. The Hon. Nancy Mitford work are satirical masterpieces like those of her male counterpart Evelyn Waugh. This book coincides with the televising of Love in a Cold Climate and programme on her and her sisters. Her life-long friend Harold Acton knew her better than anyone and shows her unusual life and characteristic supreme wit better than anyone else now is able to.

About this title

About the Author:

Harold Acton was one of the bright young things (Evelyn Waugh based one of his most loved characters on him) who was one of Nancy Mitford's closest friends. Diana Mitford was Nancy Mitford's sister and a friend of Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill.

Review:

The autobiography Nancy Mitford intended to write herself.' Daily Mail " 'A hotline to Nancy Mitford.' Deborah Moggach " Foreword by Diana Mosley " 'Weep with laughter.' India Knight, London Review of Books

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper & Row
• Publication date: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0060100184
• ISBN 13: 9780060100186
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 252