The Blessing

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The Blessing is a comic satirical novel by Nancy Mitford, first published in 1951.

[edit] Plot summary

It is set in the post-war WW2 period and concerns Grace, an English country girl who moves to France after falling for a dashing aristocratic Frenchman named Charles-Edouard who lusts after other women. Their son Sigi aims to keep his parents apart by engineering misunderstandings.

[edit] Film adaptation

• A 1959 film called Count Your Blessings was based in the novel. It starred Maurice Chevalier.