Life in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford?The Biography

Nancy Mitford was, in the words of her sister Lady Diana Mosley, “very complex.” Her highly autobiographical early work, the biographies and novels of her more mature French period, her journalism, and the vast body of letters to her family, to 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, acquaintances, and colleagues, prizewinning author Laura Thompson has fashioned a portrait of a contradictory and courageous woman. Approaching her subject with wit, perspicacity, and huge affection, Thompson makes her serious points lightly, eschewing clichés about the eccentricities of the Mitford clan. Life in a Cold Climate is full of the sound of Mitfordian laughter; but also tells the often paradoxical and complex story beneath the smiling and ever-elegant façade.

Nancy Mitford era, in cuvintele surorii sale Lady Diana Mosley, „foarte complexa”. Lucrarile sale timpurii extrem de autobiografice, biografiile si romanele perioadei sale franceze mai mature, jurnalismul si vastul corp de scrisori catre familia ei, catre prieteni precum Evelyn Waugh si catre marea dragoste a vietii sale, Gaston Palewski, toate povestind o poveste interesanta. Traind din acestea, precum si din conversatiile cu cele doua surori, cunostinte si colegi supravietuitori ai lui Mitford, autorul castigator Laura Thompson a creat un portret al unei femei contradictorii si curajoase.