Darling by India Knight Paperback Book 9780241955055

Delight the bookworm in your life with the gift of this hilarious and heartbreaking modernday adaptation of Nancy Mitfords classic The Pursuit of HappinessMarooned in a sprawling farmhouse in Norfolk teenage Linda Radlett feels herself destined for greater things She longs for love but how will she ever find it She cant even get a signal on her mobile phone Lindas strict former rock star father terrifies any potential suitors away while her bohemian mother wafting around in silver jewellery answers Lindas urgent questions about love with upsettingly vivid allusions to animal husbandryEventually Linda does find her way out from the bosom of her deeply eccentric extended family and she escapes to London She knows she doesnt want to marry a man who looks like a pudding as her good and dull sister Louisa has done and marries the flashy handsome son of a UKIP peer insteadBut this is only the beginning of Lindas pursuit of love a journey that will be wilder more surprising and more complicated than she could ever have imaginedA savagely funny bracingly sad dazzlingly clever reimagining of The Pursuit of Love I loved it Meg Mason author of Sorrow and Bliss A triumph Brilliantly done...