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product_id: 12396268
title: "The Pursuit of Love"
brand: "nancy mitford"
price: "4156 kr"
currency: ISK
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reviews_count: 12
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# The Pursuit of Love

**Brand:** nancy mitford
**Price:** 4156 kr
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- **What is this?** The Pursuit of Love by nancy mitford
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## Description

The Pursuit of Love

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Very funny!
  

*by K***R on Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2023*

I loved this book. I appreciated the wit, the dry British humor and the wonderful character development, all coming from a writer with no literary education (i.e. not formally trained to write). It is clear that the novel was written during the war and not continuously. There is a great difference in the writing style between the first 180 pages and the last 20 --- most of the book is written in a light hearted way, whereas the reader can sense the worry and the gloom in the last 20 pages, which were possibly completed during the war (the book was first published in 1945, at the end of WW2). In the last 20 pages the characters simply change their behavior and the reader can immediately identify subtle remarks over the place of Britain in the world at that time and in that context; the author does spend time to discuss the major world events back then and the effort England/ the Allies made to turn around the events in WW2. Also interesting to see how different her point of view was from her sister's, Diana. Certainly worth a read.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Enjoyable and Dated
  

*by F***S on Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2013*

This is a wonderful novel in a brittle midcentury manner. It reads quickly and well, highly articulated, rather bleak. I think it provides substantial insight into the mindset of the British upper class in the period within the world wars.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Hon or counter hon
  

*by K***R on Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2012*

All of us must look within ourselves for the answer.  Fanny and her cousin Linda and sisters found the Hon Closet and meet regularly.  Jon's have titles and counter hons do not.  However one may be declared a hon by the cousins.  I read this book years ago but retread it after reading American Lady in which Nancy Mitford is described often.  for years I hoped only to be a hon.Linda lives for love, and her lack of education and enforced lack of interests insure that love remains a central preoccupation.  Her cousin Fanny narrates her study with wit and empathy. The false starts and the shame of an unfashionable frock are told with great understated humor.  There are characters that we seem to know even in their absence.  Fanny's mother is "The Bolter" who seems to run from every relationship and has left Fanny to be raised by her aunt.  This book gives us the indelible description of new born baby as "the usual horrible sight of a screaming orange in a black wig." For poor Linda has married in haste, and after a tough pregnancy is not enchanted with her baby. Now doctors diagnosis this as postpartum depression, but for Linda, an  aunt comments that she is too young to be taken with a child like an older woman.  This book takes us to an earlier age when much of the commentary on life's challenges come from an aunt or a mother.  They are cunningly portrayed, and despite the presence now of "experts", we continue to hear their words of wisdom or not so wisdom. Linda comes to love her baby but goes back to her search for love.  World War II enters the picture and alters the world of the hons forever.  This book takes us through the changes as our two young women try to make sense of their places in the bigger world outside the Hon closet.  If you haven't read it, do it right away.

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