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Darling

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 Comedy Feel-Good Funny Witty

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This is the best book I’ve read for a long time, I much preferred it to the original

Best book I’ve read for ages

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I really enjoyed this book and was so engaged with the characters however was so disappointed with the ending. Did I miss something? I even had to listen to it three times as it seemed to end so abruptly….I was left feeling a bit baffled but maybe that was the desired effect?

Loved it until the ending

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All round such a fun listen, my favourite audiobook yet! Need to read the pursuit of love next I think

Fabulous narration!

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This is just perfect. absolutely love, adore, worship these gorgeous characters. India Knight has written a truly wonderful re-working of The Pursuit of Love, and it has made me want to pursue it forever and ever. it's clever, original (which is difficult when you're rewriting an established and beloved classic story!) and engrossing. I'd like India to rewrite more please!
absolutely wonderful 😊

I will never ever tire of this gorgeous story

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A very sweet story about a family and pretty funny moments in there too. Ending was unexpected and gave me goosebumps

Lovely

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