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With The Pursuit of Love, the Mitfords became the Kardashians of their day
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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.
With The Pursuit of Love, the Mitfords became the Kardashians of their day
In her hit comic novel, Nancy Mitford reinvented her damaged, despicable family as adorable oddballs – and pioneered structured reality
8 May 2021 • 5:00am
Wishful thinking on a heartbreakingly grand scale: Lily James as Linda in The Pursuit of Love
Credit: Robert Viglasky/BBC
“My dear Lady Kroesig, I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It’s so frightfully good I’ve never bothered to read another.” So says Uncle Matthew in Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love, a glossy new adaptation of which begins on BBC One tomorrow, with Lily James as Linda Radlett (Nancy’s alter ego), and Dominic West as Uncle Matthew, the “wicked lord of fiction”, who hunts his children on horseback with bloodhounds, and takes tea under the entrenching tool, “still covered with blood and hairs”, with which he “whacked to death eight Germans one by one as they crawled out of a d