# Highland Fling

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- Book: [Highland Fling](https://www.bookquiver.com/nancy-mitford/highland-fling) ([Highland Fling.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/nancy-mitford/highland-fling.md))
- Authors: [Nancy Mitford](https://www.bookquiver.com/nancy-mitford)
- Publisher: Fig Tree
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4156-766-1
- Published: 2021-09-30
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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