Nancy Mitford – Cannonball Read 17

The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford

January 15, 2025 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

A recommendation by elderberrywine! Truly, I started speaking like a member of the Bright Young Things x British Landed Gentry in the 1930s after reading this, because there’s something so compelling about the way everyone in these sorts of novels swans around the world. It genuinely is “this absolute disregard for whatever anyone else might think,” and not realizing that the way you grew up and did things is entirely out of the norm. Because you only have your people to compare against, wouldn’t you […]

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Love Among the Feral Set

The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford

December 27, 2024 by elderberrywine 2 Comments

If you have ever been exposed to the world of the British landed gentry (in books only, obv!), it is generally on the male side. The young lads attend a public school (such as Eton), go off to one of the Oxbridge colleges, and then emerge as captains of the Empire. The female side? Not even close. My first exposure to their bizarre world was <i>Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford</i>, which I read and reviewed earlier this year. The Mitford sisters were six in […]

I am obliged to begin this story with a brief account of the Hampton family, because it is necessary to emphasise the fact once and for all that the Hamptons were very grand as well as very rich.

Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford

March 30, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is the second of two books that take place within the social context of this group of friends and acquaintances. In this book we follow along the trials and tribulations of Polly Hampton, a young woman who more or less becomes a fallen heiress but works her way back to some kind of set of graces through ingenuity and charm. I wasn’t a giant fan of the first book by Nancy Mitford, nor did I really like a different novel of hers I read […]

Seeing how a hand carves out meaning with a pencil point lets us remember that the human touch is essential

Act of God by Jill Ciment

The Grownup by Gillian Flynn

The Vacationers by Emma Straub

Accident/A Day's News by Christa Wolf

Wigs on the Green by Nancy Mitford

And Now You can Go by Vendela Vida

Victory over Japan by Ellen Gilchrist

Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather

The Two of Them by Joanna Russ

June 26, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Act of God – 3/5 Stars This is a funny and odd little book by a writer I don’t really know, but as I did a little research into has been writing and publishing for a while. This book is told from an ever-shifting third person limited perspective following different women who are responding to a crisis they all share. Kat and her twin sister Edith are older twins living in the rent-controlled apartment that belonged to their late mother. Their mother was a famous […]

Cold Climate, Hot Blue Bloods

March 8, 2014 by bonnie Leave a Comment

Once again, we meet narrator Fanny to witness a very different kind of dysfunctional love in her family in this quasi-sequel to The Pursuit of Love. This time, it involves Fanny’s distant cousin Polly, and the secret and forbidden love she’s been languishing under for years. While Fanny’s crazy cousin Linda has been making a fool of herself so that she can find a boy and get laid, Polly is turning her nose up left and right at eligible and handsome tail, much to the […]

Pursuit of Love–Happiness Optional

March 8, 2014 by bonnie Leave a Comment

If you’re a fan of a satiric voice and mocking manners, then you should definitely check out Nancy Mitford. My friend S is studying her for her doctoral exam, and raved about her. I like a sassy lady who writes about people and society, and Mitford is right up my alley. Pursuit of Love is narrated by Fanny, a young woman essentially abandoned by her parents and raised by her maiden aunt Emily. Her cousins, the Radletts, live nearby, and it is their story that […]

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