Nancy Mitford by Selina Hastings
Selina Hastings captures equally the gaiety and frivolity and the unhappy truth of Nancy Mitford's life: her failed marriage and her long, unfulfilled relationship with 'the Colonel' contrasting sharply with literary celebrity and glittering social success.
Selina Hastings has written a book which Nancy Mitford would have been proud to write herself -- AN. Wilson
Very perceptive and often very funny -- Peter Ackroyd
Absorbing and vividly written * Catholic Herald *
An impeccable biography * Literary Review *
Very perceptive and often very funny -- Peter Ackroyd
Absorbing and vividly written * Catholic Herald *
An impeccable biography * Literary Review *
Selina Hastings is a writer and journalist, biographer of Somerset Maugham, Evelyn Waugh, Nancy Mitford and Rosamund Lehmann and, in The Red Earl, of her father.
She is the winner of the Marsh Biography Prize, the Spear's Award for Outstanding Achievement and the Biographers' Club Lifetime Services to Biography Award.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099429555 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099429551 |
| Title | Nancy Mitford |
| Author | Selina Hastings |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2002-04-04 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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