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The Blessing

By Nancy Mitford

By Nancy Mitford

By Nancy Mitford

By Nancy Mitford

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    About The Blessing

    The Blessing is one of Nancy Mitford’s most personal books, a wickedly funny story that asks whether love can survive the clash of cultures.

    When Grace Allingham, a naïve young Englishwoman, goes to live in France with her dashingly aristocratic husband Charles-Edouard, she finds herself overwhelmed by the bewilderingly foreign cuisine and the shockingly decadent manners and mores of the French. But it is the discovery of her husband’s French notion of marriage—which includes a permanent mistress and a string of casual affairs—that sends Grace packing back to London with their “blessing,” young Sigismond, in tow. While others urge the couple to reconcile, little Sigi—convinced that it will improve his chances of being spoiled—applies all his juvenile cunning to keeping his parents apart. Drawing on her own years in Paris and her long affair with a Frenchman, Mitford elevates cultural and romantic misunderstandings to the heights of comedy.

    About The Blessing

    The Blessing is one of Nancy Mitford’s most personal books, a wickedly funny story that asks whether love can survive the clash of cultures.

    When Grace Allingham, a naïve young Englishwoman, goes to live in France with her dashingly aristocratic husband Charles-Edouard, she finds herself overwhelmed by the bewilderingly foreign cuisine and the shockingly decadent manners and mores of the French. But it is the discovery of her husband’s French notion of marriage—which includes a permanent mistress and a string of casual affairs—that sends Grace packing back to London with their “blessing,” young Sigismond, in tow. While others urge the couple to reconcile, little Sigi—convinced that it will improve his chances of being spoiled—applies all his juvenile cunning to keeping his parents apart. Drawing on her own years in Paris and her long affair with a Frenchman, Mitford elevates cultural and romantic misunderstandings to the heights of comedy.

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    Highland Fling
    The Pursuit of Love
    Love in a Cold Climate
    Don't Tell Alfred
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    About Nancy Mitford

    Nancy Mitford, daughter of Lord and Lady Redesdale and the eldest of the six legendary Mitford sisters, was born in 1904 and educated at home on the family estate in Oxfordshire. She made her debut in London and soon became… More about Nancy Mitford

    About Nancy Mitford

    Nancy Mitford, daughter of Lord and Lady Redesdale and the eldest of the six legendary Mitford sisters, was born in 1904 and educated at home on the family estate in Oxfordshire. She made her debut in London and soon became… More about Nancy Mitford

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $15.95
    Published by Vintage
    Aug 10, 2010 | 256 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780307740830

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Vintage
    Aug 10, 2010 | 256 Pages | ISBN 9780307741387

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    Praise

    “A refreshment to the mind and the spirit. . . . Cunningly constructed, artfully written, and divinely farcical.” —The New York Times Book Review

    “Mitford tells her story with much wit, intelligence, and polish.” —The Times (London)
     
    “Deliciously funny.” ­—Evelyn Waugh
     

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