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Biographical note
Born into one of the aristocracy's more eccentric families and educated at home with a clutch of siblings, Mitford used childhood experience, lightly fictionalised, in her comic novels. She also wrote biographies, translated from the French and edited a celebrated symposium on English Aristocrats.<b>Utter</b>, <b>utter bliss</b>—<i>Daily Mail</i><br /><br />A <b>dazzling comic delight</b>—<i>Fiona Wilson, The Times, Saturday Review</i><br /><br />The story's <b>genius lies in its wicked humour</b>, which remains <b>relentlessly uplifting</b> even as the Blitz begin to smash all the hopes of that pre-war arcadia—<i>Olivia Laing, The Guardian</i><br /><br />Too <b>spiky and intelligent</b>, I think, to qualify as an altogether cosy read [...] beneath the brittle surface of Mitford's wit there is <b>something infinitely more melancholy at work</b> - something that is apt to snag you and pull you into its dark undertow when you are least expecting it—<i>Zoë Heller, The Telegraph</i><br /><br />Nancy Mitford taught the wonderful truth that <b>laughter can see you through the darkest hours</b> of your life—<i>Daily Mail</i><br /><br />The Millennial faint-hearted will be appalled by Mitford's depiction of class and gender. But Mitford's <b>triumph</b> is that, as the Radletts live and laugh and cry, <b>we [cry] with them</b>—<i>Julie Parsons, The Irish Times</i><br /><br />In her novels Nancy mastered her life, making everyone who was different or difficult into figures of mirth, moving only among the aristocracy, and <b>infusing the world with a spirit of lazy, delightful romance</b>—<i>Natasha Walter, The Independent</i><br /><br />Utter, utter bliss—<i>Daily Mail</i><br /><p>A dazzling comic delight. <b><i><br /></i></b></p>—<i>Fiona Wilson, The Times, Saturday Review</i>