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
