{"product_id":"nancy-mitford-vintage-lives-by-selina-hastings","title":"Nancy Mitford by Selina Hastings","description":"\u003cp\u003eNancy Mitford was witty, intelligent, often acerbic, a great tease and an acute observer of upper-class English idiosyncrasies. With the publication of her novels, above all The Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate and The Blessing, she became a huge bestseller and a household name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn inspired letter writer, she wrote almost daily to a wide variety of correspondents, among them Evelyn Waugh, Harold Action, John Betjeman, Lord Berners, Lady Seafield, and, of course, her sisters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelina Hastings captures equally the gaiety and frivolity and the unhappy truth of Nancy Mitford's life: her failed marriage and her long, unfulfilled relationship with 'the Colonel' contrasting sharply with literary celebrity and glittering social success. Selina Hastings has written a biography that is superbly entertaining and clear-eyed, of a life that Diana Mosley spoke of as being 'so sad one can hardly bear to contemplate it'.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42290958565450,"sku":"5072aa","price":8.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/5072aa_360dc2f9-5d43-482b-92f3-8fec68f1e8ec.jpg?v=1765917560","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/nancy-mitford-vintage-lives-by-selina-hastings","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}