‘He was the great love of her life you know.’
‘Oh, dulling,’ said my mother, sadly, ‘One always thinks that. Every, every time.’
Oh, the tedium of waiting to grow up! Longing for love, obsessed with
weddings and sex, Linda and her sisters and cousin Fanny are on the
lookout for the perfect lover.
But finding Mr Right is much harder than any of the sisters had
thought. Linda must suffer marriage first to a stuffy Tory MP and then
to a handsome and humourless communist, before finding real love in
war-torn Paris ...
This week's book is The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford