Part of a newly designed Nancy Mitford series. 'Obsessed with sex!' said Jassy, 'there's nobody so obsessed as you, Linda. Why if I so much as look at a picture you say I'm a pygmalionist.' In the end we got far more information out of a book called Ducks and Duck Breeding. 'Ducks can only copulate,' said Linda, after studying this for a while, 'in running water. Good luck to them. Oh the tedium of waiting to grow up! Longing for love, obsessed with weddings and sex, Linda and her sisters and cousin Fanny are on the look out for the perfect lover. But finding Mr Right is much harder than any of the sisters thought. Linda must suffer marriage first to a stuffy Tory MP and then to a handsome and humorousless communist before finding real love in war-torn Paris . . . The Pursuit of Love is one of the funniest, sharpest novels about love and growing up ever written.
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Nancy Mitford nació en Londres el 28 de noviembre de 1904, hija del segundo barón Redesdale y la mayor de seis niñas. Entre sus hermanas se encontraban Lady Diana Mosley; Deborah, duquesa de Devonshire y Jessica, quien inmortalizó a la familia Mitford en su autobiografía Nobles y rebeldes. Las hermanas Mitford alcanzaron la mayoría de edad durante los locos años veinte y la guerra en Londres, y eran bien conocidas por su belleza, bohemia de clase alta y sus lealtades políticas. Nancy contribuyó con columnas para The Lady y el Sunday Times, además de escribir una serie de novelas populares que incluyen A la caza del amor y Amor en clima frío.