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By: India Knight
Narrated by: Sophie Winkleman
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Marooned 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 moves to London to become a model. 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 her new life is unromantic: darker, wilder and more complicated than she expected.

Then one day, at her lowest ebb, Linda spontaneously boards the Eurostar to Paris. There she is swept up in a feverish love affair that will upend her life completely.

A razor-sharp, laugh-out-loud novel that re-imagines the cast of Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love.

©2022 India Knight (P)2022 Penguin Audio Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Literature & Fiction Satire Women's Fiction Comedy Feel-Good Funny Heartfelt Witty
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Funniest audiobook I have ever listened to. Narrator is absolutely brilliant as is the storyline

Best EVER audiobook

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I frequently laughed out loud while listening to this. India Knight is clearly in love with her Uncle Matthew and Sophie Winkleman performs him so well. It's a very close rewrite of The Pursuit of Love and delectable. The ending feels very abrupt though.

So charming and funny

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Wonderfully funny, beautifully written and read with such professionalism.
A light hearted delight.
To be enjoyed.

So enjoyable ….

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Fantastic book wonderful story and narration… did not enjoy the ending however would read or listen to this book again in a heart beat ❤️

Love the book, not the last chapter ❤️

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I absolutely devoured this, the time seemed to fly by. I took to having long candlelit baths just to listen !The characters are fabulous and by the end of the story you feel like you know them intimately. India Knight is an extremely talented novelist.

Absolute heaven.

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