| The Blessing | |
| Author: | Nancy Mitford |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Random House |
| Release Date: | 1951 |
| Media Type: | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages: | 305 |
The Blessing is a comic satirical novel by Nancy Mitford, first published in 1951.
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.
A 1959 film called Count Your Blessings was based in the novel. It starred Deborah Kerr, Rossano Brazzi, and Maurice Chevalier.