Nancy Mitfords The Pursuit of Love is one of the funniest, sharpest novels about love and growing up ever written. n n Obsessed with sex! said Jassy, theres nobody so obsessed as you, Linda. Why if I so much as look at a picture you say Im a pygmalionist. n n In the end we got more information out of a book called Ducks and Duck Breeding. n Ducks can only copulate, said Linda, after studying this for a while, in running water. Good luck to them. n n Oh, the tedium of waiting to grow up! Longing for love, obsessed with weddings and sex, Linda and her sisters and cousin Fanny are on the lookout for the perfect lover. n n But finding Mr Right is much harder than any of the sisters had thought. Linda must suffer marriage first to a stuffy Tory MP and then to a handsome and humourless communist, before finding real love in war-torn Paris. . . n n Utter, utter bliss Daily Mail n