Together these hilarious novels vividly evoke the lost glamour of aristocratic life in England between the wars. Love in a Cold Climate focuses on Polly Hampton, long groomed for the perfect marriage by her fearsome mother, Lady Montdore, but secretly determined to find her own path. The Pursuit of Love follows the travails of Linda, the most beautiful and wayward Radlett daughter, who falls first for a stuffy Tory politician, then an ardent communist, and finally a French duke named Fabrice. Uncle Matthew is the blustering patriarch, known to hunt his children when foxes are scarce Aunt Sadie is the vague but doting mother and the seven Radlett children are recklessly eager to grow up. We are introduced to the Radletts through the eyes of their cousin Fanny, visiting their Gloucestershire estate. Nancy Mitford modeled the characters in her two best-known novels on her own famously unconventional family. About the Book The Pursuit of love originally published in London: Hamish Hamilton, 1945 - Love in a cold climate originally published in London: Hamish Hamilton, 1949.īook 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 wrong places.
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