Fanny, raised by her Aunt Emily and stepfather Davey, spends all her holidays at Alconleigh with Uncle Matthew and Aunt Sadie and their family.Īs with all Mitford novels there are many laugh-out-loud moments. When not out hunting, The Hons spend hours in a large warm cupboard gossiping about love and Fanny’s disreputable mother, ‘The Bolter’, who abandoned her daughter to pursue love. The reality, however, is more difficult and less romantic than they imagined. They are obsessed by sex and romance whilst being woefully ignorant of the practicalities. The teenage Linda and sisters, and cousin Fanny who visits the Radletts at the fading freezing family pile, Alconleigh in the Cotswolds, want to grow up now. Fanny Logan narrates this story of the Radlett family and, in particular, her cousin Linda’s pursuit of love. A slower, more meditative pace inhabits The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford, less frenetic than her earlier novels.
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