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.--- Marooned in a sprawling
farmhouse in Norfolk teenage Linda Radlett feels herself destined for greater things. She
longs for love but how will she ever find it? She can't even get a signal on her mobile phone.
Linda's strict former rock star father terrifies any potential suitors away while her
bohemian mother wafting around in silver jewellery answers Linda's urgent questions about
love with upsettingly vivid allusions to animal husbandry. Eventually Linda does find her way
out from the bosom of her deeply eccentric extended family and she escapes to London. She
knows she doesn't want to marry 'a man who looks like a pudding' as her good and dull sister
Louisa has done and marries the flashy handsome son of a UKIP peer instead. But this is only
the beginning of Linda's pursuit of love a journey that will be wilder more surprising and
more complicated than she could ever have imagined. --- 'A savagely funny bracingly sad
dazzlingly clever reimagining of The Pursuit of Love. I loved it' Meg Mason author of Sorrow
and Bliss 'A triumph! Brilliantly done faithful but imaginative tremendously romantic and
very funny' Nina Stibbe author of Reasons to be Cheerful 'Fans of Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit
Of Love will adore this brilliant contemporary take ... The writing is as sharp the details as
perfect the jokes as funny as [the] original' Daily Mail 'Beautifully and meticulously done'
The Sunday Times
