
Love in a Cold Climate is the sequel to Nancy Mitford's bestselling novel The Pursuit of Love' How lovely
- green velvet & silver I call that a dream so soft & 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 & 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 & promptly eloping to France But the consequences of this union no one could quite expect Love in a Cold Climate is the wickedly funny follow-up to The Pursuit of Love ' Entirely original inimitable & irresistible' Philip Hensher Spectator