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This biography draws on Nancy Mitford's highly autobiographical early novels, the biographies and novels of her more mature French period, her journalism, and the vast body of letters to her sisters, lovers, and friends such as Evelyn Waugh and Cyril Connolly. Laura Thompson has put together a portrait of a courageous and contradictory woman—a woman who expressed anti-feminist views while living a life of financial and emotional independence; a woman who appeared quintessentially English but who was only wholly able to be herself once she moved to France; a woman who believed implacably that the best response to life's pain was laughter. Approaching her subject with wit, perspicacity, and huge affection, Laura Thompson, like Mitford, makes her serious points lightly. Eschewing cliches about the eccentricities of the Mitford clan, Thompson analyzes the contradictions and complexities at the heart of Nancy Mitford's life and work.
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A writer and freelance journalist, Laura Thompson won the Somerset Maughan award for her first book, THE DOGS (Chatto, 1994). After leaving Oxford, where she studied English, she wrote and performed in a highly acclaimed one-woman show about the life and work of Jean Rhys.
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“A life story nearly as witty and provocative as the English author's delicious novels.” -- Kirkus Reviews
“Among the best of the many books about the notorious Mitfords.” -- Kirkus Reviews
“The author brings Mitford and her works back to life, skillfully balancing the writer and the woman.” -- Library Journal
“Among the best of the many books about the notorious Mitfords.” -- Kirkus Reviews
“The author brings Mitford and her works back to life, skillfully balancing the writer and the woman.” -- Library Journal
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