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If one or more items are not available when you place your order there may be a delay in dispatch, so that we can send your items in as few parcels as possible. Items are usually dispatched within twenty-four to seventy-two hours. Her mother, Fanny says, “having felt herself too beautiful and too gay to be burdened with a child at the age of 19… left my father when I was a month old, and subsequently ran away so often, and with so many people, that she became known to her family and friends as The Bolter”.Orders are processed and dispatched Monday to Friday. The blustering father and vague but loving mother exercise little control or direction over their seven children and niece Fanny the latter, who narrates, is being raised by her aunt and uncle because her own extravagant parents find child-rearing too unglamorous. The Pursuit of Love, her most successful novel, is a thinly veiled portrait of her own greatly eccentric family, disguised as the Radletts, living on the rural Alconleigh estate.

The early ones, amusing but slight, contained hints of her future literary success: witty dialogue, plenty of exaggeration and multiple characters. Nancy, the eldest daughter, wrote fast-paced, quick-witted comic novels satirising the interwar English upper class.

A “rich vein of lunacy” ran in the Mitford family, according to Jessica, one of the six aristocratic Mitford daughters, who had an isolated and eccentric upbringing before embarking on their headline-grabbing careers, which were grist to the British gossip-column and tabloid mills.

The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford