Such a fun and witty read about the Radletts, mainly Linda Radlett, who feels herself destined for greater things in life. The book then follows all of the family – but primarily Linda on her pursuit of love, taking in London and Paris as well as Norfolk.

Okay readers, don’t judge me, we’ve all done it, but I requested this book solely on the basis of loving that simply gorgeous front cover. Her updates are so so clever - Uncle Matthew is a cantankerous retired rock star living in rural Norfolk with bad wifi and little phone signal, and Auntie Sadie is posh Anglo-Indian boho, while Lord Merlin is now a sort of combination of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano (the doves dyed pastel colours totally fit!Well-written and replete with deadpan humour, sarcasm and irony it’s a banter-filled, yet poignant tale. Após este período, o valor da mensalidade será cobrado automaticamente, por meio do método de pagamento cadastrado. I avoided watching, because the Wes Andersonification of my greatest literary succour seemed likely to burst every vein in my eyeballs.

Some tweaks reflect contemporary sensibilities: sea swimming replaces hunting, and most of the characters have jobs: Linda runs a Dalston café, and her one true love, Fabrice, owns chic boutique hotels. Darling is also in that vein, that serves a heightened sense of reality in a decidedly upper-middle-class world, where worries are real but they are less where the money for the mortgage is going to come from and more will they be able to afford a junior suite at the Ritz in Paris, or will it have to be a mere double room. The fact that it is a modern adaptation has been done so well, it has avoided being a superficial reading of The Pursuit of Love so well. Although Linda believes she wants to be free from the family confines, really she only dreams of romance and marriage.but I never actually believed it; the smug privilege and pointlessness of just about everyone in the book left me struggling to understand why I was supposed to care for or about any of them - it's all very well to employ character stereotypes for a fun shorthand so the audience knows what to expect, but to never step beyond the stereotypes is the mark of a lazy author. Trouble is, Linda’s lived a very sheltered life and tends to see the best in people, even when people aren’t being their best.

Here are all the old favourites – gorgeous Linda, irascible Uncle Matthew, husky-voiced Bolter – brought up-to-date and reimagined by Knight. This is a book full of lovely things: clothes and curtains and old Apple Mac computers in “boiled-sweet pink”. Knight makes Linda’s third love affair, with French hotel tycoon Fabrice El Hassane, dizzyingly romantic. She was determined to escape the ordinariness of life, so she went to Paris, met some eccentric people, married some of them, and lived her life to the fullest. I found myself tearing through, beguiled by Knight's faithful channelling of Radlett ways, wiles and speech patterns .La storia di Linda, bella e autolesionista senza saperlo ne volerlo è da sola interessante e intrigante ma tutta la famiglia composta da un padre ex pop star e dalla madre nobile indiana, dai fratelli e cugina, dalle zie e i loro uomini sono una sorpresa continua, molto attuale e informativa. Only two bars of signal in an abandoned pig ark connect the home-schooled siblings and the narrator, cousin Franny (no longer Fanny, understandably), to the outside world. India Knight does a fantastic job of capturing the essence of Mitford's original story but brings overlays modernity that makes it more relatable for today. As crazy as things get, there are poignant moments scattered throughout which remind us that love is sometimes not what we imagined, but it can also come when we least expect it.