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Bloomsbury presents Life in a Cold Climate by Laura Thompson, read by Jilly Bond.

'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 clichés 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 façade.

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

'Well-nigh perfect' Diana Mosley, Literary Review

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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

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