Friday 30 August 2024

Nancy Mitford Part II

Fanny marries Alfred Winsham and they move to a small house in Oxford. Linda's marriage goes wrong almost immediately, she finds Tony's middle class ways irritating and he finds her frivolity annoying. She becomes pregnant, and has a daughter Moira, but she does not care for the child. Fanny is soon pregnant, and sees less of Linda, who is living in London and busy with a social life. Meanwhile, Polly's romantic life takes a strange twist. Her mother is a bossy domineering woman who has been having an affair with Boy Dougdale, a writer, who is married to Lord Montdore's sister. Boy is a writer about the upper classes and a snob. He also likes young girls. Then Lady Patricia, his wife, dies. Boy has always been an unfaithful husband, but Patricia had been loyal to him. To everyone's horror, Polly proposes to Boy, and they get engaged. He does not really wnat to marry her and he knnows that it will causes a terrible rift between him and his ex mistress and sister in law, but Polly is beautifyl and he is a snob, and he cannot extricate himself.....

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