The Pursuit of Love
Now a major series on BBC and Prime Video directed by Emily Mortimer and starring Lily James and Andrew Scott
$21.25
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
1 February 2016
Summary
Reissued on the 70th anniversary of its first publication
‘Obsessed with sex!’ said Jassy, ‘there’s nobody so obsessed as you, Linda. Why if I so much as look at a picture you say I’m a pygmalionist.’
‘In the end we got far more information out of a book called Ducks and Duck Breeding.’
‘Ducks can only copulate,’ said Linda, after studying this for a while, ‘in running water. Good luck to them.’
Oh the tedium of waiting to grow up! Longing for love, obsessed wi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241974681 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241974682 |
| Author: | Nancy Mitford, Zoë Heller |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 2016 |
| Weight: | 160g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 14mm |
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Critics Review
“Mitford, describing in a tart and easy fashion the diverting activities of a titled English family, is mocking, good-tempered, and very funny.” – The New Yorker
Utter, utter bliss * Daily Mail *
A dazzling comic delight * Fiona Wilson, The Times, Saturday Review *
The story’s genius lies in its wicked humour, which remains relentlessly uplifting even as the Blitz begin to smash all the hopes of that pre-war arcadia * Olivia Laing, The Guardian *
Too spiky and intelligent, I think, to qualify as an altogether cosy read […] beneath the brittle surface of Mitford’s wit there is something infinitely more melancholy at work - something that is apt to snag you and pull you into its dark undertow when you are least expecting it * Zoë Heller, The Telegraph *
Nancy Mitford taught the wonderful truth that laughter can see you through the darkest hours of your life * Daily Mail *
The Millennial faint-hearted will be appalled by Mitford’s depiction of class and gender. But Mitford’s triumph is that, as the Radletts live and laugh and cry, we [cry] with them * Julie Parsons, The Irish Times *
In her novels Nancy mastered her life, making everyone who was different or difficult into figures of mirth, moving only among the aristocracy, and infusing the world with a spirit of lazy, delightful romance * Natasha Walter, The Independent *
About The Author
Nancy Mitford
Nancy Mitford (1904-1973) was born in London, the eldest child of the second Baron Redesdale. She had written four novels, including Wigs on the Green (1935), before the success of The Pursuit of Love in 1945, which she followed with Love in a Cold Climate (1949), The Blessing (1951) and Don’t Tell Alfred (1960). She also wrote four works of biography. Nancy Mitford was awarded the CBE in 1972.
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