Penguin Modern Classics: Love In A Cold Climate & Other Novels

Pursuit Of Love: Love In A Cold Climate: The Blessing

Nancy Mitford’s brilliantly witty, irreverent stories of the upper classes in pre-war London and Paris conjure up a world of glamour, gossip and decadence. In The Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate and The Blessing, her extraordinary heroines deal with armies of hilariously eccentric relatives, the excitement of love and passion, and the thrills of the social Season. But beneath the glittering surfaces and perfectly timed comic dialogue, Nancy Mitford’s novels are also touching hymns to a lost era and to the brevity of life and love.
‘Very funny… inimitable and irresistible… one of the most individual, beguiling and creative users of English this century.’ Philip Hensher