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The Pursuit of Love

Now a major series on BBC and Prime Video directed by Emily Mortimer and starring Lily James and Andrew Scott

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The Pursuit of Love

By: Nancy Mitford
Narrated by: Bessie Carter
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One of the funniest, sharpest novels about love and growing up ever written, Nancy Mitford's classic is now major BBC and Prime Video series directed by Emily Mortimer and starring Lily James, Andrew Scott and Dominic West

'He was the great love of her life you know.'
'Oh, dulling,' said my mother, sadly, 'One always thinks that. Every, every time.'

Oh, the tedium of waiting to grow up! Longing for love, obsessed with weddings and sex, Linda and her sisters and cousin Fanny are on the lookout for the perfect lover.

But finding Mr Right is much harder than any of the sisters had thought. Linda must suffer marriage first to a stuffy Tory MP and then to a handsome and humourless communist, before finding real love in war-torn Paris . . .

NANCY MITFORD'S WICKEDLY FUNNY SERIES CONTINUES IN LOVE IN A COLD CLIMATE AND DON'T TELL ALFRED.

'Utter, utter bliss' Daily Mail

'A pleasure as intense as inheriting a perfect pearl necklace, or finding a silk dress in a vintage shop that fits like a glove' Caitlin Moran, Harper's Bazaar

'Peerless' Zoe Heller

© Nancy Mitford 1945 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

 Contemporary Literature & Fiction Women's Fiction Funny Feel-Good War

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Critic reviews

Utter, utter bliss
A dazzling comic delight
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
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I loved the book a compelling account of life of the eccentric upper classes in England just before and the beginning of the war. The narration is more than terrific, you feel that you are in all the dining rooms with the characters.

Fabulous story fabulous narration

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