Nancy Mitford: A Memoir

by Harold Acton and Diana Mosley (Introduction)

Book Overview

Special West End Hardback Edition of the Trade Paperback; this only available biography of Nancy Mitford in the year when her work is being relaunched and televised, by her friend Sir Harold Acton. 'A... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060100184
• ISBN13: 9780060100186
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Guarenteed to make you laugh and feel touched by her life

I have been looking for a biography of Nancy Mitford for so long, and here it is finally, and by a friend of hers as well. It made me laugh as much as her novels. Rather than put himself on the foreground, Acton lets Nancy Mitford do the speaking and so it really is as if this is her talking about her own life, a sort of autobiography. I watched the documentary earlier this year and I must say quite a different person emerges from this book. She was quite a self-made person, despite her background, and no doubt therefore so resilient in her disastrous love affairs. Highly recommended.