Life in a Cold Climate

Nancy Mitford - The Biography

Laura Thompson

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Head of Zeus
02 December 2020

Biography; Biography: literary

'The book is a gem: fresh, intelligent and assured' Sunday Times Nancy Mitford was, in the words of her sister Lady Diana Mosley, 'very, very complex'. Her biographies and novels, her journalism, and the vast body of letters to her family, 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 and colleagues, prize-winning author Laura Thompson has fashioned a portrait of a contradictory and courageous woman.

Thompson approaches her subject with wit, perspicacity and affection, while eschewing cliches about the eccentricities of the Mitford clan. Life in a Cold Climate is full of the sound of Mitfordian laughter; but tells also the often paradoxical and complex story beneath the smiling and ever elegant facade.

'A brilliant study, original, perceptive, passionate' Selina Hastings

'Well-nigh perfect' Diana Mosley, Literary Review

By: Laura Thompson
Imprint: Head of Zeus
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9781789542660
ISBN 10: 1789542669
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 02 December 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Laura Thompson is the author of Somerset Maugham Award-winning The Dogs: A Personal History of Greyhound Racing, and Agatha Christie: An English Mystery.

Reviews for Life in a Cold Climate: Nancy Mitford - The Biography

The book is a gem: fresh, intelligent and assured * Sunday Times * A brilliant study, original, perceptive, passionate -- Selina Hastings Well-nigh perfect -- Diana Mosley, Literary Review Award-winning writer Laura Thompson seeks to explain a sophisticated, glamorous literary heroine... [A] good read' * This England * This refreshing edition allows us to enjoy again a shrewdly argued, thoroughly engrossing, life affirming tribute to the lady [Nancy Mitford]. We can rediscover for ourselves that distinctive and timeless joie de vivre * Glasgow Herald *