Nancy Mitford

Nancy Mitford was witty, intelligent, often acerbic, a great tease and an acute observer of upper-class English idiosyncrasies. She became a best-selling author and a household name with the publication of "The Pursuit of Love" and "Love in a Cold Climate". 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 strongly with her literary celebrity and glittering social success. The author worked for 14 years on the books page of "The Daily Telegraph".