I felt genuinely traumatised with the abrupt, matter-of-fact manner in which the story was tossed aside. Louisa, for example, the doughty oldest daughter, still marries a Scottish peer, but in Knight’s version she becomes an Instagram influencer: “‘I take pictures of the house and the children and of me, looking all golden with the light streaming in, and then I get tons of followers who love me, and then people give me things. A Audible é um serviço de entretenimento em áudio que oferece aos assinantes acesso ilimitado a mais de 100 mil audiolivros, além da possibilidade de adquirir um catálogo adicional de mais de 300 mil títulos de audiolivros com desconto. Delight the bookworm in your life with the gift of this hilarious and heartbreaking modern-day adaptation of Nancy Mitford's classic, The Pursuit of Happiness.

Hers is a higgledy-piggledy life that is always buoyed by good cheer, and everyone swept up in her wake is left changed by the encounter, no matter how small or big it is.A razor-sharp, laugh-out-loud novel that re-imagines the cast of Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love. Eventually Linda does find her way out from the bosom of her deeply eccentric extended family, and moves to London to become a model. Knight also takes a gleeful magnifying glass to the hypocrisies of modern life, from rigorous dieter Blanche going to restaurants solely for social media content, to Christian making Linda do all the housework, because paying a cleaner is “immoral”. This is perhaps because Knight, free from the innate pressures of the roman à clef, has enough distance for clarity. The plot remains very much the same; Knight has taken few liberties, but has recast the beloved characters and story in a modern mould.

I also heartily disliked the only India Knight book I have read because of the the smug middle class protagonists, almost all awful people. There is an eclectic supporting cast who are excellently described – Davey and his gut health being very informative! As we never tired of complaining,” says Franny, who narrates the novel, “we were ridiculously old-fashioned.If we told someone that this was our life,” says the central character in Darling, “they wouldn’t believe us.

As the hours count down to their wedding, Piglet is torn between a growing appetite and the desire to follow the recipe, follow the rules. Tony is still a very dull banker, Christian is a poet and Fabrice owns a few boutique hotels in Paris. The last few years have seen the 2021 BBC adaptation of Mitford’s 1945 novel The Pursuit of Love, starring Lily James, and the “Mitford Murders” series by Jessica Fellowes. Of course, she is beautiful, with an innate sense of style; every girl wants to be her, every guy wants to be with her.Also, any book that manages to make me laugh out loud (or snort) multiple times, has a special place in my heart. Linda’s life story was rehashed to the smallest details, while the ‘I’, Franny, happily faded into the background, playing a secondhand character to Linda.