Molly Guinness

Chagrin d’amour

  • The Horror of Love: Nancy Mitford and Gaston Palewski in Paris and London

    Lisa Hilton

    Orion, pp. 263

The horror of love: Nancy Mitford’s first fiancé was gay; her husband, Peter Rodd, was feckless, spendthrift and unsympathetic, and her great amour, Gaston Palewski, was endlessly unfaithful. She met him during the war in London and was in love with him for the rest of her life.

Palewski was Charles de Gaulle’s right-hand man.

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