These letters are often hilarious, and provide a wonderful insight into a really lovely friendship that survived several decades. Whenever I think of Nancy Mitford - I suppose like many people I immediately conjour up for myself images of the 1920's 1930's or 40's. But of course Nancy lived untill the 1970's and these letters dated from 1952 - 1973 puts Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill in a more modern world - and their occaisional horror at it is quite often very funny. For example: From NM from Venice 1962 - All the boys here wear a tiny wireless tucked in among their private parts - you wouldn't believe the din these things give out" and From HH 1963:
"One of the reasons we took Lucy to Corfu is that her friend Jane Asher is in love with a Beatle and told Lucy she would produce another Beatle for her.....They did turn up but luckily the other Beatle was already mated with a Liverpudlian hairdresser" hilarious!! ( )

Acquired via BookCrossing 08 Jul 2009 - bookring

Letters between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill, who ran the bookshop at which she worked in the 1940s - they maintained a correspondance up until her death in the 1970s. As jolly but not as inpenetrable as some of the letters between the Mitford sisters, these give a lovely flavour of a close and supportive friendship.

A delightful set of letters that I've devoured over a few days (I thought I should get it read, lest it disappear into the TBR's yawning chasm) - I am having a bit of a Mitford Fest at the moment as also working my way through the complete letters, but this filled in some gaps and it was lovely having Heywood Hill's letters too. Intriguing how the editor of the book gets into its latter stages himself. Oh, and I'll definitely have a look into the bookshop, as it's still going apparently! ( )