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Book at Bedtime: Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love

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The Pursuit of Love

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Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love

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Fanny Logan's aristocratic cousin Linda Radlett falls in love, to the dismay of her family

Fanny Logan's aristocratic cousin Linda Radlett falls in love, much to the dismay of her family. Read by Diana Quick.

by Nancy Mitford. Linda falls in love, to the dismay of her family. Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths and read by Diana Quick. 

Fanny Logan tells the story of her beloved aristocratic cousins, the Radletts, and in particular Linda, who is beautiful and loves animals. Uncle Mathew hunts his children with bloodhounds (to the horror of respectable families in the local village) and keeps a blood-spattered entrenching tool above the fireplace as a relic of his experiences in the First World War. The cousins spend much of their childhood in the airing cupboard - the only warm place in the enormous Alconleigh Hall - discussing love and sex.

Beautifully observed and hilariously funny, the novel is also a fascinating hinterland account of the period leading to the Second World War and never pulls its punches in evoking the painful reality of the times. 

Reader...Diana Quick
Abridger...Lauris Morgan-Griffiths
Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery.

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Nancy Mitford's razor-sharp comic classic on love and growing up in the 1930s

Nancy Mitford's razor-sharp comic classic on love and growing up in the 1930s. Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths and read by Diana Quick

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