The Pursuit of Love

Informationen zum Autor Nancy Mitford (1904-1973) was born in London, the eldest child of the second Baron Redesdale. She had written four novels, including Wigs on the Green (1935), before the success of The Pursuit of Love in 1945, which she followed with Love in a Cold Climate (1949), The Blessing (1951) and Don't Tell Alfred (1960). She also wrote four works of biography. Nancy Mitford was awarded the CBE in 1972. Klappentext Reissued with a new introduction by Zoe Heller. Zusammenfassung Longing 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...

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Nancy Mitford (1904-1973) was born in London, the eldest child of the second Baron Redesdale. She had written four novels, including Wigs on the Green (1935), before the success of The Pursuit of Love in 1945, which she followed with Love in a Cold Climate (1949), The Blessing (1951) and Don't Tell Alfred (1960). She also wrote four works of biography. Nancy Mitford was awarded the CBE in 1972.

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Product details

• Authors: Zoë Heller, Nancy Mitford
• Assisted by: Zoë Heller (Introduction)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 26.11.2015
• EAN: 9780241974681
• ISBN: 978-0-241-97468-1
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); FICTION / Women, FICTION / Romance / Contemporary, Adult & contemporary romance, France, Oxfordshire, contemporary romance, Humorous fiction, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Paris (City), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period)