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I confess my primary reason for reading this book is to do so before the BBC series becomes available in the states. It is campy and silly, high society British families worrying about fashion and marriage in the years right before WWII. I understand the characters are all based on Nancy Mitford's family (you can read the uncle as her real-life father.) The sisters/cousins marry fascist sympathizers or Communists and there don't seem to be many options in between.
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Nancy Mitford's razor-sharp comic classic on love and growing up in the 1930s. ...more
Nancy Mitford's razor-sharp comic classic on love and growing up in the 1930s. ...more
I finally found this on ebook! A nice surprise is that the edition also contains Love in a Cold Climate and The Blessing. I had been wanting to read something by Mitford for a long while, having heard of her distinct sense of humor and colorful family history. I have to say she lives up to the hype, somehow successfully blending serious, sometimes tragic circumstances with searing wit. I can see how some would be turned off though--the viewpoint of her narrator is decidedly upper-class and has n
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A beautiful trifle, darling.
The Pursuit of Love was fun and light, but also a notable study of class and society in the 1930’s England. Nancy Mitford reinvented Jane Austen, adding lightness to the social commentary but, like Austen, she had an immense ability to reflect and expose the contemporary world around herself.
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