![]() ![]() Today, it would probably be considered as top class chicklit, but with added bite. Mines silver lame, it smells like a bird cage when it gets hot but I do love it. She rubbed a fold of the skirt against her cheek. I call that a dream, so soft and delicious, too. This novel is a charming comedy of manners that is mostly frothy, but is often mordantly witty, particularly about Lady Montdore’s total snobbishness, and the vanity that Cedric awakes in her! Given that it was published in 1949 elements in it were probably seen as quite racy. Love in a Cold Climate is the sequel to Nancy Mitfords best-selling novel The Pursuit of Love. This means the Montdore fortune will go to cousin Cedric, a Canadian – who turns up in Paris, and proceeds to charm his ageing Aunt and indeed everyone with his gay ways. Then, after the death of her aunt, Polly shocks everyone by saying she is going to marry her Uncle – instant disinheritance ensues. Meanwhile the Montdores are beginning to despair about Polly who should have been married by now, you can’t remain a debutante for several years. Fanny’s family itself is no stranger to matrimonial shenanigans – her mother is known as ‘The Bolter’, currently on about husband number three somewhere. Being from a less well-to-do family, but in demand by the Montdores as a sensible friend, Fanny is ideally placed to comment on how the other half live. ![]() Set between the wars, this novel follows the lives and loves of an impossibly rich and aristocratic family – the Montdores, seen through the eyes of Fanny, a childhood friend of their daughter Polly. ![]()
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