Darling: A razor-sharp, gloriously funny retelling of Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love

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Darling: A razor-sharp, gloriously funny retelling of Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love

Darling: A razor-sharp, gloriously funny retelling of Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love

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Or rather, she treats tiny little things as if they were international catastrophes and international catastrophes as if they were tiny little things. It was irreverent and refreshing, witty and erudite, very much in a similar vein to Bridget Jones’ Diary and other women’s fiction hits that came out around that time. Irascible patriarch Uncle Matthew is a reformed rock star and his notorious Great War entrenching tool a bloodstained Brit award he used to brain a drummer while ‘high on pharmaceutical-grade cocaine’. A razor-sharp, laugh-out-loud novel that re-imagines the cast of Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Their parents are global rock icon Matthew and former private chef Sadie, who herself is the daughter of an Indian diplomat and an English debutante. Publication dates are subject to change (although this is an extremely uncommon occurrence overall). Thirteen days before they are due to be married, Kit reveals an awful truth, cracking the facade Piglet has created.Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit. Her first venture into literature was 2000’s My Life on a Plate, charting a woman’s complicated family life which was more or less a fictionalised account of her own story. For younger bookworms – and nostalgic older ones too – there’s the Slightly Foxed Cubs series, in which we’ve reissued a number of classic nature and historical novels.

Knight is a columnist for the Sunday Times Style, who has also written four other novels and some non-fiction books, along with a children’s book.I also heartily disliked the only India Knight book I have read because of the the smug middle class protagonists, almost all awful people. Rafiq Hardi Kermanj, founder of the Communist Party of Kurdistan, is forced to flee Tehran for London with his family. Public service announcement for fellow Nancy Mitford fans: India Knight’s modern retelling, Darling, is HEAVEN.

Perhaps this is why she remains a heroine for all ages: there is an innocence about her, even as she abandons a child and, here, dabbles in drugs. Beautiful, guileless aristocrat Linda Radlett falls disastrously in love with a rich banker and then a broke radical before finding happiness with an urbane Frenchman.It’s easy to dismiss the domestic, but if home is where the heart is, the heart is where all humanity happens. In one memorable exchange, the youngest sister Jassy leads: “‘Do you know, ducks have actual penises. After writing an article in The Sunday Times about her daughter's special needs - her youngest child has DiGeorge syndrome.

Darling belongs in the pantheon of books that feel a bit like opening up a doll’s house to show the impeccable precision of the world within.

She was awarded an exhibition to Trinity College, Cambridge, where she read Modern Languages from 1984-1987, before starting her career in journalism. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Uncle Matthew is now a retired rock-star who wants to protect his children from the tabloids; Lord Merlin, the effete neighbour in Mitford’s original, becomes fashion wunderkind Merlin Berners (a nod to Lord Berners, who inspired the character); Davey, obsessed with his health, fits seamlessly into the modern world: “‘I have a lot of time for the late Dr Mayr’s method.



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