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Life in a cold climate : Nancy Mitford : the biography

"Nancy Mitford was, in the words of her sister Lady Diana Mosley, 'very, very complex'. Her highly autobiographical early novels, the biographies and novels of her more mature French period, 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, acquaintances and colleagues, ... Laura Thompson has fashioned a portrait of a contradictory and courageous woman. Nancy Mitford expressed anti-feminist views while living a life of financial and emotional independence; believed profoundly in marriage and family and yet grew to value work and solitude; was quintessentially English yet only truly blossomed after her move to France ... [This] is full of the sound of Mitfordian laughter; but tells also the often paradoxical and complex story beneath the smiling and ever elegant facade"--Publisher's description.

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