Love In A Cold Climate

Of all the dazzling social butterflies who flitted from Mayfair luncheons to grand house parties in the shires, none were more deliciously gossip-worthy than the jewel-bright habitues of Hampton Place. Inside its silk-clad walls the loveliest of the Bright Young Things, Polly Hampton, declared undying love for her dissolute uncle Boy Dougdale. In revenge, her mother, the gimlet-eyed Lady Montdore, is bewitched by the transforming charm of dragonfly Cedric. Nancy Mitford casts a finely gauged net to capture perfectly the foibles and fancies of the English upper-class.