LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED?

The first episode of The Pursuit of Love ends as Linda Radlett (Lily James), naive and romantic and hectic with glamour, walks down the aisle. This isn’t really a spoiler, in the sense that it shouldn’t be possible to spoil the plot of a story that, in novel form, was published in the year 1945, but also because the entire point of The Pursuit of Love is right there in the title: this is the tale of the search, fruitful and fruitless, desperate and eternal, for a happy ending. Weddings are a necessary part of such a search, and so Linda, the beautiful daughter of an eccentric English lord, finds herself in a white gown and glittering with jewels on the day of her wedding. She is 18. As she walks towards her incumbent and deeply inappropriate husband Tony (Freddie Fox) and away from her cousin and best friend Fanny (Emily Beecham), the grungy wail of Sleater-Kinney begins to play: ‘My baby