Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford
Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford
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Love in a Cold Climate

Author: Nancy Mitford

Narrator: Zoe Telford

Unabridged: 8 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/21/2021


Synopsis

A sparkling romantic comedy that vividly evokes the lost glamour of aristocratic life in England between the wars.

Polly Hampton has long been groomed for the perfect marriage by her mother, the fearsome and ambitious Lady Montdore. But Polly, with her stunning good looks and impeccable connections, is bored by the monotony of her glittering debut season in London. Having just come from India, where her father served as Viceroy, she claims to have hoped that society in a colder climate would be less obsessed with love affairs.

The apparently aloof and indifferent Polly has a long-held secret, however, one that leads to the shattering of her mother’s dreams and her own disinheritance. When an elderly duke begins pursuing the disgraced Polly and a callow potential heir curries favor with her parents, nothing goes as expected, but in the end all find happiness in their own unconventional ways.

About Nancy Mitford

Nancy Mitford, daughter of Lord and Lady Redesdale and the eldest of the six legendary Mitford sisters, was born in 1904 and educated at home on the family estate in Oxfordshire. She made her debut in London and soon became one of the bright young things of the 1920s, a close friend of Henry Green, Evelyn Waugh, John Betjeman, and their circle. A beauty and a wit, she began writing for magazines and writing novels while she was still in her twenties. In all, she wrote eight novels as well as biographies of Madame de Pompadour, Voltaire, Louis XIV, and Frederick the Great. She died in 1973.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kelly on May 30, 2011

Dulling, dulling! You must! Simply must read this! It’s just too unfair the way Nancy could write this! We do not all have such an excellent family for material. Did you know my dear that Nancy’s sister herself said she had no imagination? It’s too true, darling! Pursuit of Love was how she found ou......more

Goodreads review by Maya on January 14, 2023

It’s not often that I’m inclined to agree with the Daily Mail, but I’d have to concur with them when they describe the experience of reading this novel as “pure bliss”. Nancy Mitford’s brand of warm-hearted, gentle, good-faith satire - devoid of any cynicism or defensiveness - is somehow wittier and......more

Goodreads review by Susan's Reviews on August 24, 2021

See my reviews for each of Nancy Mitford's novels in this series. I read these decades ago, before they were adapted into the TV series. We have it on good authority, (her eldest sister, the Duchess, wrote an autobiography and it backs up that just about everything in these novels was taken from Nanc......more