The Pursuit of Love
Jul 21, 2021
2 minutes
by Nancy Mitford
‘It’s best to enjoy it as a romp, leaving space for its sad, resigned undertow to surface’
WRITING to her great friend Evelyn Waugh about her new novel, published in 1945, and contrasting it with his roughly contemporary , Nancy Mitford told him it was: ‘About my family, a very different cup of tea, not grand and far madder.’ And so it was. Where is a is tight-packed and intimate, a gossipy, funny, affectionate portrayal of inter-war, upper-crust life.
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