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Love in a Cold Climate

By: Nancy Mitford
Narrated by: Zoe Telford
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Love in a Cold Climate is the sequel to Nancy Mitford's best-selling novel The Pursuit of Love.

'How lovely - green velvet and silver. I call that a dream, so soft and delicious, too.' She rubbed a fold of the skirt against her cheek. 'Mine's silver lame, it smells like a bird cage when it gets hot but I do love it. Aren't you thankful evening skirts are long again?'

Ah, the dresses! But oh, the monotony of the Season, with its endless run of glittering balls. Even fabulously fashionable Polly Hampton - with her startling good looks and excellent social connections - is beginning to wilt under the glare.

Groomed for the perfect marriage by her mother, fearsome Lady Montdore, Polly instead scandalises society by declaring her love for her uncle 'Boy' Dougdale, the Lecherous Lecturer, and promptly eloping to France. But the consequences of this union no one could quite expect....

©1949 Nancy Mitford (P)2021 Penguin Audio Classics Literature & Fiction

Critic Reviews

"Entirely original, inimitable and irresistible." (Philip Hensher, Spectator)
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A delicious novel deliciously read. Highly enjoyable and classic. They have their cake and eat it too! Bravo!

On your Fanny

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Love this book and loved the narrator who bought each character brilliantly to life. Nancy Mitford’s wit is second to none

Brilliant

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Great story but spoiled by the reader who spoke in hushed tones when narrating the storyline, as if whispering secret asides, and then came startlingly alive when voicing characters. Very annoying, but I persisted for the sake of Nancy Mitford and her wit.

The narrator is a low talker!

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In Nancy Mitford’s descriptive style, I was easily transported to this time, the pretty, the funny, the glamorous, the privilege. Moments of racism and patriarchy as to be expected for the era but I thoroughly enjoyed the story though maybe not quite as endearing as the Pursuit of Love.
I found the narration difficult with much of the story almost whispered which was frustrating.
I’m ready for another Mitford story though!

Conjuring visual delights from another time

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