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The Blessing is one of Nancy Mitford's most personal books, a wickedly funny story that asks whether love can survive the clash of cultures.

""The Blessing"" by Nancy Mitford is a novel that tells the story of Grace Allingham, a young woman from a wealthy family who falls in love with a struggling artist named Charles-Edouard. Against the wishes of her parents, Grace marries Charles-Edouard and the couple move to... Read Full Overview

Grace is lovely but not really up to the Parisian haute monde into which her marriage plunges her. Charles is very French, very much in love with Grace, and unwilling to give up his mistress. And both are the credulous victims of their son Sigismund, a juvenile Machiavelli of... Read Full Overview