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    ENCOUNTERS

    Apr 15, 2021 3 minutes
    By Jonathan Wright, Samantha Nott and Matt Elton

    DIARY: LISTEN / WATCH / TASTE

    WATCH

    Radical romantic

    Nancy Mitford’s deserved reputation as a wit and sharp-eyed chronicler of social mores rests in great part on The Pursuit of Love (1945), the first volume in a tragicomic trilogy about British upper-class life. At its heart is fearless, headstrong Linda Radlett, a young woman who dreams of romance and adventure – and follows those dreams in the years leading up to the Second World War.

    The novel has

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