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The Pursuit of Love

Nancy Mitford · 1945 CE · Novel · English · Contemporary

Linda Radlett grows up at Alconleigh among cousins, bloodhounds and a father who hunts his own children for sport, with no education and nothing to wait for but love. She marries badly, twice, and keeps looking, the whole thing narrated by her steadier cousin Fanny. Comedy shadowed by what's coming.

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