When Nancy Mitford died in 1973, she had amassed material for her autobiography but had never quite gotten around to it. A dear friend and fellow member of the Bright Young Things, Harold Acton enthusiastically completed this portrait of the author of Love in a Cold Climate and The Pursuit of Love, who was so romantically unhappy herself. Offering a glimpse of an unconventional life among Britain's upper-class, this gossipy narrative abounds in samples of Mitford's waspish wit.