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Introduced by Hugo Vickers. Book Illustrations by Roland Pym. 216 pages with 12 plates. Book size: 8¾" x 5". Also see the sequel |
English upper-class eccentricity reached its height in the famous Mitford family; and Nancy Mitford ensured that its rich lunacies were distilled into one of the great classics of humorous fiction. In the secrecy of the Hons cupboard the young Radletts fantasise about the facts of life, in between fights with irascible Uncle Mathew, who threatens the intransigent with an entrenching tool. Linda survives this extraordinary upbringing only to fall headlong into two disastrous marriages in her search for true love. But at last on the platform of the Gare du Nord she finds the real thing....
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