Love in a Cold Climate

Another romp through the British upper classes – house parties, and gossip. Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh were great mates – the wit, satire and contempt for the upper classes are there. But, it’s difficult to see how this book and Madam Bovary get to be on the same list. Perhaps its all the make over tips from that great ‘aesthete pansie”, Cedric who takes over Hampton and sends Lady Montdore off to the spa for an orange juice only diet – although she eventually breaks out and is busted for breaking out and stuffing elevenses down her throat. This doesn’t dampen Cedric’s resolve. He makes Lady Montdore say “brush” before she comes into a room so that “her face is fixed in a very gay smile”. Watch this face!