Nancy Mitford

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<p>Nancy Mitford was witty, intelligent, often acerbic, a great tease and an acute observer of upper-class English idiosyncrasies. With the publication of her novels, above all<i>The Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate</i>and<i>The Blessing</i>, she became a huge bestseller and a household name.</p><p>An inspired letter writer, she wrote almost daily to a wide variety of correspondents, among them Evelyn Waugh, Harold Action, John Betjeman, Lord Berners, Lady Seafield, and, of course, her sisters.</p><p>Selina Hastings captures equally the gaiety and frivolity and the unhappy truth of Nancy Mitford's life: her failed marriage and her long, unfulfilled relationship with 'the Colonel' contrasting sharply with literary celebrity and glittering social success. Selina Hastings has written a biography that is superbly entertaining and clear-eyed, of a life that Diana Mosley spoke of as being 'so sad one can hardly bear to contemplate it'.</p>

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Selina Hastings is a writer and literary journalist. She worked for fourteen years on the<i>Daily Telegraph</i>and subsequently as literary editor of<i>Harper's&Queen</i>. She has also written<i>Evelyn Waugh: A Biography.</i>

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