Description
Title: Pursuit of Love, The
Author: MITFORD NANCY
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/02/2016
Imprint: PENGUIN BOOKS
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
Introduced by Zoe Heller
‘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 had thought. 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 . . .
The Pursuit of Love is one of the funniest and sharpest novels about love and growing up ever written.
‘Utter, utter bliss.’ Daily Mail
ISBN: 9780241974681
Pages: 224
Edition: 01