NANCY MITFORD’S WICKEDLY FUNNY SERIES CONTINUES IN LOVE IN A COLD CLIMATE AND DON’T TELL ALFRED.
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford digital book - Fable.
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. Mitfords most enduringly popular novel, The Pursuit of Love is a classic comedy about growing. 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.īut finding Mr Right is much harder than any of the sisters had thought. Mitfords most enduringly popular novel, The Pursuit of Love is a classic comedy about growing up and falling in love among the privileged and eccentric. ‘Oh, dulling,’ said my mother, sadly, ‘One always thinks that. ‘He was the great love of her life you know.’ PLEASE NOTE that this is the THIRD PRINTING of the American edition.One of the funniest, sharpest novels about love and growing up ever written, Nancy Mitford’s classic is now a major BBC and Prime Video series directed by Emily Mortimer and starring Lily James, Andrew Scott and Dominic West A BBC-Amazon TV adaptation, directed by Emily Mortimer and starring Lily James, is reportedly in the works in late 2020 (after some covid-related delays) two previous British TV versions (19) both used the "Love in a Cold Climate" title, but were actually based on both that book and this one. She wrote two sequels: "Love in a Cold Climate" (1949) and "Don't Tell Alfred" (1960). It was her first real success as a writer - a huge best-seller in England, and also the first of her books to be published in America - and really established her on the literary scene. Nancy Mitford (1904-1973) was born in London, the eldest child of the second Baron Redesdale. Mitford's fifth novel, a romantic comedy (with tragic overtones), peopled with thinly-disguised characters based in her friends and family. Illustrated by (dj design) Albert Jousset (illustrator).
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