Mitford's beloved novel published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.
Nancy Mitford (1904-1973) was born in London, the eldest child of the second Baron Redesdale. She had written four novels, including Wigs on the Green (1935), before the success of The Pursuit of Love in 1945, which she followed with Love in a Cold Climate (1949), The Blessing (1951) and Don't Tell Alfred (1960). She also wrote four works of biography. Nancy Mitford was awarded the CBE in 1972.
Utter, utter bliss
*Daily Mail*
A dazzling comic delight
*Fiona Wilson, The Times, Saturday Review*
The story's genius lies in its wicked humour, which remains
relentlessly uplifting even as the Blitz begin to smash all the
hopes of that pre-war arcadia
*Olivia Laing, The Guardian*
Too spiky and intelligent, I think, to qualify as an altogether
cosy read [...] beneath the brittle surface of Mitford's wit there
is something infinitely more melancholy at work - something that is
apt to snag you and pull you into its dark undertow when you are
least expecting it
*Zoë Heller, The Telegraph*
Nancy Mitford taught the wonderful truth that laughter can see you
through the darkest hours of your life
*Daily Mail*
The Millennial faint-hearted will be appalled by Mitford's
depiction of class and gender. But Mitford's triumph is that, as
the Radletts live and laugh and cry, we [cry] with them
*Julie Parsons, The Irish Times*
In her novels Nancy mastered her life, making everyone who was
different or difficult into figures of mirth, moving only among the
aristocracy, and infusing the world with a spirit of lazy,
delightful romance
*Natasha Walter, The Independent*
Utter, utter bliss
*Daily Mail*
A dazzling comic delight.
*Fiona Wilson, The Times, Saturday Review*
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