Tribulations in the Pursuit Of Love
Stellar Dominic West, Lily James and the of cast of a riotous new BBC adaptation for... The Pursuit Of Love say brace yourselves
Three years in the making, the BBC’s three-part adaptation of aristocratic author Nancy Mitford’s novel The Pursuit Of Love finally comes to the screen this week. An immediate hit when it was published in 1945, the book sold 200,000 copies within a year. Nancy, one of the six famous Mitford sisters, could trace her family line back to the Norman Conquest and the story, set between the wars, is loosely based on them. It revolves around the eccentric Radletts who live at the Alconleigh estate. Beautiful but naive Linda, the second eldest of seven children, is the heroine – desperate to follow her heart and escape her repressive father Matthew.
It’s told through the eyes of her cousin Fanny, who sticks by her through thick and thin as Linda’s life becomes a catalogue of romantic misadventures.
With a stellar cast, stunning costumes and an electrifying soundtrack featuring T Rex, Roxy Music and The Who, the show is sure to turn a new generation on to the delightfully bonkers Nancy Mitford and her sisters...
–Tim Oglethorpe and Gabrielle Donnelly