<b>Utter</b>, <b>utter bliss</b>

Daily Mail

A <b>dazzling comic delight</b>

Fiona Wilson, The Times, Saturday Review

The story's <b>genius lies in its wicked humour</b>, which remains <b>relentlessly uplifting</b> even as the Blitz begin to smash all the hopes of that pre-war arcadia

Olivia Laing, The Guardian

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Too <b>spiky and intelligent</b>, I think, to qualify as an altogether cosy read [...] beneath the brittle surface of Mitford's wit there is <b>something infinitely more melancholy at work</b> - 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 <b>laughter can see you through the darkest hours</b> of your life

Daily Mail

The Millennial faint-hearted will be appalled by Mitford's depiction of class and gender. But Mitford's <b>triumph</b> is that, as the Radletts live and laugh and cry, <b>we [cry] with them</b>

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 <b>infusing the world with a spirit of lazy, delightful romance</b>

Natasha Walter, The Independent

Utter, utter bliss

Daily Mail

<p>A dazzling comic delight. <b><i><br /></i></b></p>

Fiona Wilson, The Times, Saturday Review

Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love is one of the funniest, sharpest novels about love and growing up ever written.'He was the great love of her life you know.''Oh, dulling,' said my mother, sadly, 'One always thinks that. Every, every time.' Longing for love, obsessed with weddings and let's not even mention the mysteries of sex, Linda and her sisters and cousin Fanny are on the hunt for the ideal lover. But finding the perfect match is much harder than any of the sisters had ever dreamed. Linda is first courted by a Tory MP and then becomes embroiled with a handsome but humourless communist, before she risks everything on a chance at real, head-over-heels love in war-torn Paris . . .'Peerless' Zoe Heller
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Mitford's beloved novel published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780241984079
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Vendor
Penguin Books Ltd
Vekt
125 gr
Høyde
181 mm
Bredde
111 mm
Dybde
14 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
224

Forfatter
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Om bidragsyterne

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.