{"product_id":"the-pursuit-of-love-9780241974681","title":"The Pursuit of Love","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLonging 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...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eUtter\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eutter bliss\u003c\/b\u003e * Daily Mail *\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cb\u003edazzling comic delight\u003c\/b\u003e * Fiona Wilson, The Times, Saturday Review *\u003cbr\u003eThe story's \u003cb\u003egenius lies in its wicked humour\u003c\/b\u003e, which remains \u003cb\u003erelentlessly uplifting\u003c\/b\u003e even as the Blitz begin to smash all the hopes of that pre-war arcadia * Olivia Laing, The Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eToo \u003cb\u003espiky and intelligent\u003c\/b\u003e, I think, to qualify as an altogether cosy read [...] beneath the brittle surface of Mitford's wit there is \u003cb\u003esomething infinitely more melancholy at work\u003c\/b\u003e - something that is apt to snag you and pull you into its dark undertow when you are least expecting it * Zoë Heller, The Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eNancy Mitford taught the wonderful truth that \u003cb\u003elaughter can see you through the darkest hours\u003c\/b\u003e of your life * Daily Mail *\u003cbr\u003eThe Millennial faint-hearted will be appalled by Mitford's depiction of class and gender. But Mitford's \u003cb\u003etriumph\u003c\/b\u003e is that, as the Radletts live and laugh and cry, \u003cb\u003ewe [cry] with them\u003c\/b\u003e * Julie Parsons, The Irish Times *\u003cbr\u003eIn her novels Nancy mastered her life, making everyone who was different or difficult into figures of mirth, moving only among the aristocracy, and \u003cb\u003einfusing the world with a spirit of lazy, delightful romance\u003c\/b\u003e * Natasha Walter, The Independent *","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733416128855,"sku":"9780241974681","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780241974681.jpg?v=1720000018","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-pursuit-of-love-9780241974681","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}