Nancy Mitford

Nancy Mitford was an English novelist, biographer, and journalist whose sparkling, witty fiction about the English upper classes has delighted readers for over seventy years. Born in 1904 into the famous Mitford family — one of six sisters who became public figures in wildly different ways — she grew up in the Cotswolds, was largely educated at home, and moved to Paris after the war, where she lived for the rest of her life. Mitford's novels include The Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate, The Blessing, and Don't Tell Alfred — comedies of aristocratic manners that combine devastating wit with genuine emotional depth. The Blessing, set in Paris, follows an English girl married to a charming French marquis whose young son learns to manipulate his parents' relationship with alarming skill. Mitford also wrote acclaimed biographies of Madame de Pompadour, Louis XIV, and Voltaire, and famously defined the concept of 'U and non-U' language. She died in 1973. Her audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers English comic fiction at its most polished and entertaining — novels that make aristocratic eccentricity irresistible.