A biography that captures both the hilarity and pathos of an extraordinary woman and a remarkable life.

Nancy Mitford was witty, intelligent, often acerbic and an acute observer of upper-class English idiosyncrasies. With the publication of her novels The Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate and The Blessing, she became a huge bestseller and a household name. An inveterate writer of letters, she wrote almost daily to, among others, Evelyn Waugh, Harold Action, John Betjeman, Lord Berners, Lady Seafield, and, of course, her sisters - correspondence that lies at the base of this biography, written with the fullest cooperation of Nancy Mitford’s family and friends.