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India Knight
Darling: A razor-sharp, gloriously funny retell...

India Knight
Darling: A razor-sharp, gloriously funny retelling of Nancy Mitford´s The Pursuit of Love

2023 | Nakladatelství The Book Service Ltd (Penguin)

'A savagely funny, bracingly sad, dazzlingly clever reimagining of The Pursuit of Love. I loved it. Meg Mason, author of Sorrow and Bliss 'A triumph! Brilliantly done, faithful but imaginative, tremendously romantic and very funny.' Nina Stibbe, author of Reasons to be CheerfulMarooned in a sprawling farmhouse in Norfo…lk, teenage Linda Radlett feels herself destined for greater things. She longs for love, but how will she ever find it? She can't even get a signal on her mobile phone. Linda's strict, former rock star father terrifies any potential suitors away, while her bohemian mother, wafting around in silver jewellery, answers Linda's urgent questions about love with upsettingly vivid allusions to animal husbandry.Eventually Linda does find her way out from the bosom of her deeply eccentric extended family, and she escapes to London. She knows she doesn't want to marry 'a man who looks like a pudding', as her good and dull sister Louisa has done, and marries the flashy, handsome son of a UKIP peer instead. But this is only the beginning of Linda's pursuit of love, a journey that will be wilder, more surprising and more complicated than she could ever have imagined.A razor-sharp, laugh-out-loud novel that re-imagines the cast of Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love. 'A savagely funny, bracingly sad, dazzlingly clever reimagining of The Pursuit of Love. I loved it. Meg Mason, author of Sorrow and Bliss 'A triumph! Brilliantly done, faithful but imaginative, tremen…dously romantic and very funny.' Nina Stibbe, author of Reasons to be CheerfulMarooned in a sprawling farmhouse in Norfolk, teenage Linda Radlett feels herself destined for greater things. She longs for love, but how will she ever find it? She can't even get a signal on her mobile phone. Linda's strict, former rock star father terrifies any potential suitors away, while her bohemian mother, wafting around in silver jewellery, answers Linda's urgent questions about love with upsettingly vivid allusions to animal husbandry.Eventually Linda does find her way out from the bosom of her deeply eccentric extended family, and she escapes to London. She knows she doesn't want to marry 'a man who looks like a pudding', as her good and dull sister Louisa has done, and marries the flashy, handsome son of a UKIP peer instead. But this is only the beginning of Linda's pursuit of love, a journey that will be wilder, more surprising and more complicated than she could ever have imagined.A razor-sharp, laugh-out-loud novel that re-imagines the cast of Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love.

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Stav:	nová
Vazba:	Brožovaná
Počet stran:	279
Jazyk:	anglicky
ISBN10:	024195505X
ISBN:	9780241955055
Vydání:	1
Vystaveno:	23. 2. 2025 23:14
Číslo položky:	1150721

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India Knight

India Knight se narodila r. 1965 v Bruselu. Povoláním je novinářka, píše fejetony a romány. Ty byly přeloženy do 28 jazyků. Má pravidelnou rubriku v Sunday Times a také je pravidelným hostem v britských rozhlasech a televizních vysíláních. V současné době žije v Londýně a má tři děti.

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