![]() ![]() ![]() “A sparkling romantic comedy that vividly evokes the lost glamour of aristocratic life in England between the wars. Together, the three books form a loose trilogy.Ī brief synopsis of Love in a Cold Climateįrom the 2010 Vintage books edition (2010): Frances “Fanny” Wincham is the narrator of both.įanny is the cousin and close friend of Linda, the protagonist of The Pursuit of Love, and a distant cousin of Polly, the main character of Love in a Cold Climate.įanny appears once again in Don’t Tell Alfred (1960), which focuses more on herself and her marriage. Though published a few years later, Love in a Cold Climate isn’t considered a sequel of The Pursuit of Love, due to its fairly concurrent time frame. ![]() The two novels established Mitford as a bestselling author, and both have both been reprinted and adapted for television multiple times, among others the miniseries Love in a Cold Climate(2001) and The Pursuit of Love(2021). It set the stage for Love in a Cold Climate, which proved to be equally successful. The Pursuit of Love was Mitford’s fifth novel but her first breakaway success, selling two hundred thousand copies within the first year. Not a sequel but a companion volume of sorts to its predecessor, like Mitford’s other novels, it satirized upper-class life in England. Love in a Cold Climate (1949) was the follow-up novel to The Pursuit of Love (1945) by British novelist, biographer, and journalist Nancy Mitford (1904 – 1973). ![]()
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