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Life in a Cold Climate: A Portrait of a Contradictory Woman - Laura Thompson
Life in a Cold Climate: A Portrait of a Contradictory Woman
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780747245759 (0747245754)
Publisher: Headline Book Publishing
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
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Peptastic is standing still
Peptastic is standing still rated it
2.0
I could not get through this biography. She relied too heavily on comparing Nancy Mitford to her book characters. I also got the impression she looked on Mitford as a guilty pleasure and needed to justify liking her at all.
Reflections
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3.0 Life in a Cold Climate: Nancy Mitford: The Biography
This biography of Nancy Mitford has a lot of unapologetic speculation--it's interesting, but very opinionated. Many sentences start with some variation of, "Perhaps this is why . . .", and then the author is off, confidently hypothesizing. Reading it has the feel of listening to a smart, lively frie...
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