Louisa, the eldest Radlett child, makes her début and quickly becomes engaged to John Fort William, a Scottish peer more than twenty years her senior. The Radlett daughters receive little in the way of formal education, and as Linda grows older she is increasingly consumed by a desire for romantic love and marriage. The early chapters recount the Radlett children's bizarre upbringing, including their contrasting obsessions with hunting and preventing cruelty to animals, and the activities of their secret society, the "Hons". Linda, the second Radlett daughter, is Fanny's best friend and the main character of the novel. Fanny also spends holidays with her uncle, Matthew Radlett, her aunt, Sadie and numerous cousins at Alconleigh. The narrator is Fanny, whose mother (called the "Bolter" for her habit of serial monogamy) and father have left her to be brought up by her aunt Emily and the valetudinarian Davey, whom Emily marries early in the novel. Her penultimate novel, The Blessing (1951), also makes references to The Pursuit of Love and characters from The Blessing later appear in Don't Tell Alfred. Mitford wrote two sequels to the novel, Love in a Cold Climate (1949) and Don't Tell Alfred (1960). The book was an immediate best-seller and sold 200,000 copies within a year of publication. Although a comedy, the story has tragic overtones.
It is the first in a trilogy about an upper-class English family in the interwar period focusing on the romantic life of Linda Radlett, as narrated by her cousin, Fanny Logan. In Love in a Cold Climate, Fanny narrates the story of Polly, to whom Fanny is distantly related through her father's family.The Pursuit of Love is a novel by Nancy Mitford, first published in 1945. In The Pursuit of Love, Fanny narrates the story of her cousin Linda Radlett. The book is subversive as well as funny and comforting. Like many of Mitford's books, this one is a about the wealthy and their privileged and often eccentric lives. However, the focus is on a different set of characters. Love in a Cold Climate is a companion volume to The Pursuit of Love, therefore the time frame of Love in a Cold Climate is the same as The Pursuit of Love. First edition first impression from 1949, the book is VG there is a previous owner inscription to front endpaper, no other internal markings, there is a spine lean, The jacket has a long tear to the rear spine and some chipping loss to tip and tail of spine, now in removable protective sleeve. Buy Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford.
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