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Love in a Cold Climate

Boots from , 6th October, 2008

Like its predecessor, The Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate is narrated by Fanny, and covers a similar time period but deals with a different subset of characters, revealing more about Fanny's own personal life and the early years of her marriage to Alfred Wincham, an Oxford don. However, the main characters are Lord and Lady Montdore and their stunning daughter, Polly. Following the death of Lord Montdore's sister, Patricia, Polly shocks everyone by marrying the widower, middle-aged Lothario 'Boy' Dougdale. Her mother, incensed because Boy had previously been her own lover, cuts Polly off. She is soon replaced in her parents' affections by her cousin, Cedric Hampton, a Nova Scotian who is heir to Lord Montdore's title. The outrageously camp Cedric charms everyone he meets and successfully changes Lady Montdore's stuffy image. This highly comic novel ends with a half-hearted reconciliation between Polly and her mother, while Cedric confides to Fanny that he has started a love-affair with Boy.

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Curate's Egg an accurate description

A Customer from Bushey, 5th March, 2009

For those who have read Nancy Mitford's Pursuit of Love, and Love in a Cold Climate, this 2001 adaptation (while picturesque) omitted too much. Entire characters disappear, forsooth! Davy (who marries Sadie's sister Emily - guardian to Fanny) never appears, but his character is vital to the books. As ever, much of the dialogue is also cut, and the script preserves many of the Mitford 'cliches', rather than the exquisite wit of the novels.

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love in a cold climate

tigerred from from telford, 13th June, 2009

an ok film although the ending was not there, it's as though it needs a follow up.

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A Customer from Johnstone, 25th February, 2009

A curate's egg type of film but overall very boring.

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Really enjoyable

A Customer from Solihull, 2nd December, 2008

I enjoyed this dvd alot don't remember when it was on the tv. Would be good if they made another series felt like there should have been more to tell.

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