title: The Blessing (novel)
text: # The Blessing (novel)
  
  The Blessing is a comic satirical novel by Nancy Mitford, first published in 1951.
  
  ## Plot summary
  
  It is set in the post-World War II 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.
  
  ## Film adaptation
  
  A 1959 film called Count Your Blessings was based in the novel. It starred Deborah Kerr, Rossano Brazzi, and Maurice Chevalier.
  
  