On the brink of adulthood, Linda Radlett and her beloved cousin Fanny Logan dream of life beyond the. Publisher: Everyman ISBN: 9781841594040 Number of pages: 488 Weight: 607 g Dimensions: 210 x 135 x 30 mm You may also be interested in. The Pursuit of Love Series 1: Episode 1 Contains some strong language. In The Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate and The Blessing, her extraordinary heroines deal with armies of hilariously eccentric relatives, the excitement of love and passion, and the thrills of the social Season. Love in a Cold Climate, again related by Fanny, focuses on Polly Hampton, long groomed for the perfect marriage by her fearsome mother, Lady Montdore, but secretly determined to pursue her own course. The Pursuit of Love is the story of Linda, the most beautiful and wayward of the Radlett daughters, who falls first for a stuffy Tory politician, then an ardent Communist (whom she follows to the Spanish Civil War), and finally a very wicked and irresistibly charming French duke. We are introduced to the Radletts through the eyes of their cousin, Fanny ('the Bolter's girl'), on one of her frequent visits to their country estate: Uncle Matthew the blustering patriarch, owner of that bloodied entrenching tool above the fireplace, who hunts his children with bloodhounds vague Aunt Sadie, and six children recklessly eager to grow up. Nancy Mitford modelled the characters in her best-known novels on her own unconventional (and at the time of writing, notorious) family. An edition of The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate: two novels (1979) The pursuit of love & Love in a cold climate two novels 1st Vintage Books ed.
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