With The Pursuit of Love, the Mitfords became the Kardashians of their day Weâre sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Iona McLaren Save Normal text size Advertisement âMy dear Lady Kroesig, I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. Itâs so frightfully good Iâve never bothered to read another.â So says Uncle Matthew in Nancy Mitfordâs The Pursuit of Love, a glossy new adaptation of which will be released in Australia on Amazon Prime Video later this year, with Lily James as Linda Radlett (Nancyâs alter ego), and Dominic West as Uncle Matthew, the âwicked lord of fictionâ, who hunts his children on horseback with bloodhounds, and takes tea under the entrenching tool, âstill covered with blood and hairsâ, with which he âwhacked to death eight Germans one by one as they crawled out of a dug-outâ in 1915.