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Together, Kit and Piglet are the picture of domestic bliss - effortless hosts, planning a covetable wedding . All the old faces are there, ripe to take on the modern world; Franny’s mother The Bolter fits surprisingly well into the 21 st century, as does Lord Merlin, who is now an avant-garde fashion designer, and who was before his time in the original in any case. The Pursuit of Love has scarcely been out of print since initial publication, and is not yet out of copyright. A Little Luck is the story about the debilitating weight of lies, the messy line between bravery and cowardice, and the tragedies, big and small, that can ripple out from a single decisive event.The last few years have seen the 2021 BBC adaptation of Mitford’s 1945 novel The Pursuit of Love, starring Lily James, and the “Mitford Murders” series by Jessica Fellowes. Thirteen days before they are due to be married, Kit reveals an awful truth, cracking the facade Piglet has created. She was determined to escape the ordinariness of life, so she went to Paris, met some eccentric people, married some of them, and lived her life to the fullest. A razor-sharp, laugh-out-loud novel that re-imagines the cast of Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love. Like most clever people, I’m not over-fussed about clothing; there have been numerous studies showing that successful types – unless they’re in entertainment, showbiz or fashion itself, obvs – tend to wear the same thing every day.

She wears her heart on her sleeve and doesn’t apologise for it, and is funny and astute in her observations. My favourite passage is the list of Things That Uncle Matthew Doesn't Like - absolute comedy genius.Here are all the old favourites – gorgeous Linda, irascible Uncle Matthew, husky-voiced Bolter – brought up-to-date and reimagined by Knight. but I never actually believed it; the smug privilege and pointlessness of just about everyone in the book left me struggling to understand why I was supposed to care for or about any of them - it's all very well to employ character stereotypes for a fun shorthand so the audience knows what to expect, but to never step beyond the stereotypes is the mark of a lazy author.

This book had an interesting storytelling style, where the character at the central of the story (Linda) wasn’t the main narrator (Franny).

After writing an article in The Sunday Times about her daughter's special needs - her youngest child has DiGeorge syndrome. Matthew is a retired rockstar, Sadie is his earth mother wife – and they home school their children – and Franny. I haven’t read the original upon which it’s based - The Pursuit of Love - but will hunt down a copy to compare. There were a lot of sidetracked and half-completed conversations - I could picture them all talking while eating, cleaning the house, watching TV and doing a million other things at the same time.

I have done ever since I picked up a copy of Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison when I was 13 and would spend hours laughing over every sentence. Delight the bookworm in your life with the gift of this hilarious and heartbreaking modern-day adaptation of Nancy Mitford's classic, The Pursuit of Happiness. Eventually Linda does find her way out from the bosom of her deeply eccentric extended family, and moves to London to become a model. Darling is a modern re-telling of Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love, and anyone familiar with that book will recognise the clever updating of the people, places and societal nuances of the original.Husband two, anti-capitalist Christian (nicknamed “posh Trot” by Uncle Matthew), meanwhile, is an Old Etonian who puts about a myth that he grew up on a housing estate in Doncaster. It was like being invited into a family, one that has their own idiosyncrasies, language, and being let in on their inside jokes as they make fun of people. The only thing I really disliked was the character of Davey - Knight has made him even more of a hypochondriac than in the original, and, while every bit as loving and caring as before, he can't open his mouth without mentioning his health in some way or another.