Letters between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill 1952-73
by
John Saumarez Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Nancy Mitford was a brilliant personality, a remarkable novelist and a legendary letter writer. It is not widely known that she was also a bookseller. From 1942 to 1946 she worked in Heywood Hill's famous shop in Curzon Street, and effectively ran it when the male staff were called up for war service....