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Highland Fling
- Author
- Nancy Mitford
- Narrator
- Katie Leung
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 26 August 2021
- Run Time
- 5 hours 54 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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Nancy Mitford's first novel, a set of completely incompatible and hilariously eccentric characters collide in a Scottish castle, where bright young things play pranks on their stodgy elders until the frothy plot climaxes in ghost sightings and a dramatic fire.
Inspired in part by Mitford's youthful infatuation with a Scottish aristocrat, her story follows young Jane Dacre to a shooting party at Dulloch Castle, where she tramps around a damp and chilly moor on a hunting expedition with formidable Lady Prague, xenophobic General Murgatroyd, one-eyed Admiral Wenceslaus, and an assortment of other ancient and gouty peers of the realm, while falling in love with Albert, a surrealist painter with a mischievous sense of humour.
Light-hearted and sparkling with witty banter, Highland Fling was Mitford's first foray into the delightful fictional world for which the author of The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate later became so celebrated.
'A delightful comedy of manners' - The Times
© Nancy Mitford 1931 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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Details
- Author
- Nancy Mitford
- Narrator
- Katie Leung
- Duration
- 5 hours 54 minutes
- Release Date
- 26 August 2021
- ISBN
- 9780241554838
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Humorous fiction, Historical romance
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.Nancy Mitford's first novel, a set of completely incompatible and hilariously eccentric characters collide in a Scottish castle, where bright young things play pranks on their stodgy elders until the frothy plot climaxes in ghost sightings and a dramatic fire.Inspired in part by Mitford's youthful infatuation with a Scottish aristocrat, her story follows young Jane Dacre to a shooting party at Dulloch Castle, where she tramps around a damp and chilly moor on a hunting expedition with formidable Lady Prague, xenophobic General Murgatroyd, one-eyed Admiral Wenceslaus, and an assortment of other ancient and gouty peers of the realm, while falling in love with Albert, a surrealist painter with a mischievous sense of humour. Light-hearted and sparkling with witty banter, Highland Fling was Mitford's first foray into the delightful fictional world for which the author of The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate later became so celebrated.'A delightful comedy of manners' - The Times© Nancy Mitford 1931 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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