Nancy Mitford

Description

Nancy Mitford was witty, intelligent, often acerbic, and an acute observer of upper-class English idiosyncrasies. This book captures equally the gaiety and frivolity and the unhappy truth of Nancy Mitford's life: her failed marriage and her relationship with 'the Colonel' contrasting sharply with literary celebrity and glittering social success.

Promotion info

A biography that captures both the hilarity and pathos of an extraordinary woman and a remarkable life. 20020220

Reviews

"Selina Hastings has written a book which Nancy Mitford would have been proud to write herself." - A.N. Wilson
"Very perceptive and often very funny." - Peter Ackroyd

Author description

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