Life in a Cold Climate: Nancy Mitford; The Biography (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781643133034)

New York Times bestselling author Laura Thompson turns her eye to the iconic and enigmatic Nancy Mitford.

Nancy Mitford was, in the words of her sister Lady Diana Mosley, "very complex." Her highly autobiographical early work, the biographies and novels of her more mature French period, her journalism, and the vast body of letters to her family, to 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, prizewinning author Laura Thompson has fashioned a portrait of a contradictory and courageous woman. Approaching her subject with wit, perspicacity, and huge affection, Thompson makes her serious points lightly, eschewing clich s about the eccentricities of the Mitford clan. Life in a Cold Climate is full of the sound of Mitfordian laughter; but also tells the often paradoxical and complex story beneath the smiling and ever-elegant fa ade.

Author: Laura Thompson
ISBN-10: 1643133039
ISBN-13: 9781643133034
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Language: English
Published: 12/03/2019
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.40w x 1.40d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/11/2019
Library Journal 12/01/2019 pg. 94
Booklist 12/15/2019 pg. 86
Shelf Awareness 01/24/2020