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Synopsis

Part of a newly designed Nancy Mitford series.

'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.

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Customer Review: 11 February 2010

Reviewer: Stephanie Sparrow

'Anyone from 12-102 would enjoy this book. It combines sharp wit with incredible poignancy. I read it every six months and it never ceases to leave me breathless with its brilliance, and in places, its tragedy. All the characters are well drawn, from the blustering Uncle Matthew to the hypochondriac Davey. The experience of reading this novel is like combining a brisk walk in the bracing air of rural Britain with a soulful meander in the uplifting beauty of Paris. I absolutely adore it! '

Critic Review:

'Utter, utter bliss'—Daily Mail

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