Life in a Cold Climate: Nancy Mitford the Biography

Author(s): Laura Thompson

Biographies & Memoirs

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 cliches about the eccentricities of the Mitford clan." Life in a Cold Climate i"s full of the sound of Mitfordian laughter; but tells also the often paradoxical and complex story beneath the smiling and ever elegant facade."

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'The book is a gem: fresh, intelligent and assured' Sunday Times. 'A brilliant study, original, perceptive, passionate' Selina Hastings. 'Well-nigh perfect' Diana Mosley, Literary Review.

Laura Thompson is author of Somerset Maugham Award-winning THE DOGS: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF GREYHOUND RACING, and AGATHA CHRISTIE: AN ENGLISH MYSTERY.

General Fields

  • : 9781784082291
  • : Head of Zeus
  • : Head of Zeus
  • : 0.71
  • : March 2015
  • : 234mm X 153mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : May 2015
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Laura Thompson
  • : Hardback
  • : Hardback
  • : Mar-15
  • : Mar-15
  • : English
  • : English
  • : 823.912
  • : 823.912
  • : 448
  • : 448
  • : 16pp b&w illus
  • : 16pp b&w illus