Tue, 24 January 2012
Oh, the joys of growing up in an underheated house with no education, lots of dogs, a medieval father and a title! Nancy Mitford's effervescent novel The Pursuit of Love is about English country house life and values, and is also a brilliant portrait of 1930s politics: she skewers capitalism, is puzzled by communism and embraces love. Children out-manoeuvre parents, the upper-classes out-vulgarise the bourgeois riches, but without the security of knowing that someone loves you, no-one can be happy. For romantics who wear little red flags in their lapels.
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Kate, I LOVE your political reading of The Pursuit of Love, one of my absolute favourites. When I talk to people about this book they are prepared to accept that it might be funny, but I can never get across how interesting it is - your podcast does that brilliantly. Thanks so much for covering this book.
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