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Book SynopsisLonging for love, obsessed with weddings and sex, Linda and her sisters and cousin Fanny are on the lookout for a 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...
Trade ReviewUtter,
utter bliss * Daily Mail *
A
dazzling comic delight * Fiona Wilson, The Times, Saturday Review *
The story's
genius lies in its wicked humour, which remains
relentlessly uplifting even as the Blitz begin to smash all the hopes of that pre-war arcadia * Olivia Laing, The Guardian *
Too
spiky and intelligent, I think, to qualify as an altogether cosy read [...] beneath the brittle surface of Mitford's wit there is
something infinitely more melancholy at work - something that is apt to snag you and pull you into its dark undertow when you are least expecting it * Zoë Heller, The Telegraph *
Nancy Mitford taught the wonderful truth that
laughter can see you through the darkest hours of your life * Daily Mail *
The Millennial faint-hearted will be appalled by Mitford's depiction of class and gender. But Mitford's
triumph is that, as the Radletts live and laugh and cry,
we [cry] with them * Julie Parsons, The Irish Times *
In her novels Nancy mastered her life, making everyone who was different or difficult into figures of mirth, moving only among the aristocracy, and
infusing the world with a spirit of lazy, delightful romance * Natasha Walter, The Independent *
