{"product_id":"darling-india-knight","title":"Darling (India Knight)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDelight the bookworm in your life with the gift of this hilarious and heartbreaking modern-day adaptation of Nancy Mitford's classic, \u003ci\u003eThe Pursuit of Love. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e---\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarooned 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEventually 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e---\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A savagely funny, bracingly sad, dazzlingly clever reimagining of \u003ci\u003eThe Pursuit of Love. \u003c\/i\u003eI loved it'\u003c\/b\u003e Meg Mason, author of \u003ci\u003eSorrow and Bliss \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A triumph! Brilliantly done, faithful but imaginative, tremendously romantic and very funny' \u003c\/b\u003eNina Stibbe, author of \u003ci\u003eReasons to be Cheerful\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Fans of Nancy Mitford's \u003ci\u003eThe Pursuit Of Love\u003c\/i\u003e will adore this brilliant contemporary take ... The writing is as sharp, the details as perfect, the jokes as funny as [the] original' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Beautifully and meticulously done' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eIndia Knight\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of four novels: \u003ci\u003eDarling,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMutton\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eComfort and Joy, Don't You Want Me?\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMy Life on a Plate\u003c\/i\u003e. Her most recent book is \u003ci\u003eIndia Knight's Beauty Edit\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a columnist for the \u003ci\u003eSunday Times, \u003c\/i\u003eand author of the Substack newsletter \u003ci\u003eHome. \u003c\/i\u003eShe lives in Suffolk.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format paperback, Englisch, 288 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65799802913117,"sku":"K096140658","price":11.3,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9614065800001A.jpg?v=1788436727","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/darling-india-knight","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}