Love in a Cold Climate, again related by Fanny, focuses on Polly Hampton, long groomed for the perfect marriage by her fearsome mother, Lady Montdore, but secretly determined to pursue her own course. Beautiful Folio Society editions of two Nancy Mitford novels, illustrated by Roland Pym, complete with slipcases in fine condition. Book Synopsis A hardcover omnibus of the comic masterpieces that made Nancy Mitford famous: madcap tales of growing up among the privileged and eccentric in England and finding love in all. The Pursuit of Love is the story of Linda, the most beautiful and wayward of the Radlett daughters, who falls first for a stuffy Tory politician, then an ardent Communist (whom she follows to the Spanish Civil War), and finally a very wicked and irresistibly charming French duke. Order a The Pursuit of Love: With Love in a Cold Climate and The Blessing (Penguin Modern Classics) today from WHSmith. The Pursuit of love originally published in London: Hamish Hamilton, 1945 - Love in a cold climate originally published in London: Hamish Hamilton, 1949.
The Pursuit of Love and its sequel, Love in a Cold Climate, are thinly disguised autobiographical novels based on Mitford’s life and her outlandish upper-class family.
We are introduced to the Radletts through the eyes of their cousin, Fanny ('the Bolter's girl'), on one of her frequent visits to their country estate: Uncle Matthew the blustering patriarch, owner of that bloodied entrenching tool above the fireplace, who hunts his children with bloodhounds vague Aunt Sadie, and six children recklessly eager to grow up. The Pursuit of Love, novel written by Nancy Mitford, published in 1945. Nancy Mitford modelled the characters in her best-known novels on her own unconventional (and at the time of writing, notorious) family. A hardcover omnibus of the comic masterpieces that made Nancy Mitford famous- madcap tales of growing up among the privileged and eccentric in England and.
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