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Highland Fling

By: Nancy Mitford
Narrated by: Katie Leung
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Brought to you by Penguin.

Nancy Mitford's first novel, a set of completely incompatible and hilariously eccentric characters collide in a Scottish castle, where bright young things play pranks on their stodgy elders until the frothy plot climaxes in ghost sightings and a dramatic fire.

Inspired in part by Mitford's youthful infatuation with a Scottish aristocrat, her story follows young Jane Dacre to a shooting party at Dulloch Castle, where she tramps around a damp and chilly moor on a hunting expedition with formidable Lady Prague, xenophobic General Murgatroyd, one-eyed Admiral Wenceslaus, and an assortment of other ancient and gouty peers of the realm, while falling in love with Albert, a surrealist painter with a mischievous sense of humour.
Light-hearted and sparkling with witty banter, Highland Fling was Mitford's first foray into the delightful fictional world for which the author of The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate later became so celebrated.

'A delightful comedy of manners' - The Times

© Nancy Mitford 1931 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Classics Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Women's Fiction Highlander Comedy Heartfelt Witty
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Tried several times to listen to this but it is narrated rather badly sad to say.

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The worst reader EVER!!! Desecrated the text.. i also tried to listen but it was unbearable.

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