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This is an account of Nancy Mitford's only real love affair and its title is taken from an exclamation she made to her sister Diana Mosley. It is a story with a delicious mix of drama, melancholy, and enchantment.

Nancy Mitford was elegant, clever, witty and exceptionally beady-eyed about the world. So why did she have such awful taste in men? This is the subject of the historian Lisa Hilton's entertainingly caustic The Horror of Love. Her book is not just a crisply written account of their relationship but also something of a manifesto for a more pragmantic, Gallic approach to human relations. The charm of The Horror of Love is its bringing to life the worlds of Nancy Mitford's novels. Its portrait of upper-class postwar Paris Palewski's femmes du monde extravagantly garbed in Dior's New Look, the glittering parties in splendid houses, and the regular recurrence of the Duchess of Devonshire will surely appeal to Mitford fans. Nancy Mitofrd, aristocrat, author, waspish wit, first laid eyes on Gaston Palewski in 1942 and, for her, it was love at first sight that lasted a lifetime. A compelling account of the 1944 liberation of France and the country's struggle to confront the collaboration. There is so much charm and drama to Nancy and Gaston's lives, embroiled as they were in the key events of the twentieth century. This is an account of Nancy Mitford's only real love affair and its title is taken from an exclamation she made to her sister Diana Mosley. It is a story with a delicious mix of drama, melancholy, and enchantment. Nancy Mitford was an English novelist with a glamor that surpassed even that of her aristocratic sisters. Her lover, Gaston Palewski, was a French politician who featured in disguised form in two of her novels. Their relationship became a tragedy. Mitford fans will love this book, of course, though it says so much more about the compromises and tragedies of love.

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Lisa Hilton is the critically acclaimed author of Queens Consort and Athenais: The Life of Louis XIV's Mistress, the Real Queen of France. She lives in London.

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