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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...

Nancy Mitford, Zoë Heller

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Penguin Books Ltd
18 June 2018

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Series: Penguin Essentials

Mitford's beloved novel published as a Penguin Essential for the first time

'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 with weddings and sex, Linda and her sisters and cousin Fanny are on the look out for the perfect lover. But finding Mr Right is much harder than any of the sisters thought. Linda must suffer marriage first to a stuffy Tory MP and then to a handsome and humorousless communist before finding real love in war-torn Paris . . .

The Pursuit of Love is one of the funniest, sharpest novels about love and growing up ever written.

By: Nancy Mitford
Introduction by: Zoë Heller
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 181mm, Width: 111mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 125g
ISBN: 9780241984079
ISBN 10: 0241984076
Series: Penguin Essentials
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 18 June 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for The Pursuit of Love: Now a major series on BBC and Prime Video directed by Emily Mortimer and starring Lily James and Andrew Scott

Utter, utter bliss * Daily Mail * A dazzling comic delight. * Fiona Wilson, The Times, Saturday Review *

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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...

Nancy Mitford, Zoë Heller

$22.99

Paperback

Reviews for 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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