![]() ‘Though she (the Bolter) was silliness personified, there was something engaging about her frankness and high spirits and endless good nature. Her mother ‘ran away so often, and with so many different people, that she became known to her family and friends as the Bolter’: The story in ‘The Pursuit of Love’ is told by Fanny who is almost like an extra daughter in the Radlett household. Meanwhile young daughter Linda cries enormous tears over the death of any animal, even a white mouse. The entrenching tool is covered with blood and hairs, ‘an object of fascination to us as children’. Uncle Matthew Radlett has mounted over the fireplace a photograph of the entrenching tool with which he ‘whacked to death eight Germans one-by-one as they crawled out of a dugout’. She seemingly without effort turned the characters of her childhood – and I do mean ‘characters’ – into frivolous eccentric figures of comedy. Many writers have turned their early years of family life as a child into a novel, but few have succeeded so brilliantly as Nancy Mitford in ‘The Pursuit of Love’. ‘The Pursuit of Love’ by Nancy Mitford (1945) – 214 pages ![]()
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