Highland Fling

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 D...