Life in a Cold Climate: A Portrait of a Contradictory Woman
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780747245759 (0747245754)
Publish date: April 1st 2004
Publisher: Headline Book Publishing
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
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.
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...