{"product_id":"the-pursuit-of-love-love-in-a-cold-climate-9780593321270","title":"The Pursuit of Love; Love in a Cold Climate","description":"\u003cb\u003eA hardcover omnibus of the comic masterpieces that made Nancy Mitford famous: madcap tales of growing up among the privileged and eccentric in England and finding love in all the wrong places.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNancy Mitford modeled the characters in her two best-known novels on her own famously unconventional family. We are introduced to the Radletts through the eyes of their cousin Fanny, visiting their Gloucestershire estate. Uncle Matthew is the blustering patriarch, known to hunt his children when foxes are scarce; Aunt Sadie is the vague but doting mother; and the seven Radlett children are recklessly eager to grow up. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Pursuit of Love\u003c\/i\u003e follows the travails of Linda, the most beautiful and wayward Radlett daughter, who falls first for a stuffy Tory politician, then an ardent communist, and finally a French duke named Fabrice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLove in a Cold Climate \u003c\/i\u003efocuses on Polly Hampton, long groomed for the perfect marriage by her fearsome mother, Lady Montdore, but secretly determined to find her own path. Together these hilarious novels vividly evoke the lost glamour of aristocratic life in England between the wars.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Everyman's Library\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/08\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593321270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 504\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs","brand":"Nancy Mitford","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41574398197941,"sku":"9780593321270","price":25.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_b0599cf7-8dec-4d9a-bf22-eb68d5a2ac6a.jpg?v=1643693719","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-pursuit-of-love-love-in-a-cold-climate-9780593321270","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}