Life in a Cold Climate: Nancy Mitford The Biography

Thompson, Laura - FIRST EDITION HARDBACK UNREAD NEW

ISBN 10: 1784082295 / ISBN 13: 9781784082291

Published by Head of Zeus, 2015

About this Item

Gorgeous hardback first edition in unread condition. Protected perfect jacket. No owner marks, names, signatures. No bent corners. Perfect first edition hardback. Language: eng.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1482430387724

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Life in a Cold Climate: Nancy Mitford The Biography
• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1784082295
• ISBN 13: 9781784082291
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

A much-praised biography of the most brilliant of the Mitford sisters, who dazzled and scandalized interwar high society with their wit and sometimes controversial lifestyles

Nancy Mitford was, in the words of her sister Lady Diana Mosley, "very, very complex." Her biographies and novels, her journalism, and the vast body of letters to her family, 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 and colleagues, prize-winning author Laura Thompson has fashioned a portrait of a contradictory and courageous woman. Thompson approaches her subject with wit, perspicacity, and affection, while eschewing clichés about the eccentricities of the Mitford clan. Life in a Cold Climate is full of the sound of Mitfordian laughter; but tells also the often paradoxical and complex story beneath the smiling and ever elegant façade.

About the Author

Laura Thompson is the author of the Somerset Maugham Award-winning The Dogs: A Personal History of Greyhound Racing, and Agatha Christie: An English Mystery.