Reissue. Mitford was a witty, intelligent and often acerbic observer of upper-class English idiosyncracies. She was also an inveterate writer of letters, writing almost daily to the likes of Evelyn Waugh, Harold Action, John Betjeman and Lady Seafield; it is these that lie at the base of this biography, written with the full co-operation of her family and friends Selina 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.
