Biography

Shortlisted for the 2008 BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction

*A collection of personal essays - surprising, disarming, heartbreakingly funny - from the #1 bestselling writer Time named America's Favorite Humorist.

Nancy 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. This book tells her story.

The autobiography Nancy Mitford intended to write herself

This is the first full-scale biography of Nansen, drawing on a wealth of new material including diaries and other hitherto untapped documents.