My own were insufferably kindly and normal. When I first read this book as an adolescent I too was envious of people with wicked parents. Her 19-year-old mother had "felt herself to be too beautiful" to be lumbered with baby Fanny so she left her husband and then left several more unsatisfactory spouses, earning herself the name of The Bolter, before settling on the Riviera with a raffish Major.īolter is played by Emily Mortimer who is in charge of this whole production - which gives me hope. In The Pursuit Of Love all the Radletts are madly envious of their cousin Fanny because she has wicked parents. But when your own life is so extraordinary, why wouldn't you? Jessica Mitford used to say that her novelist sister Nancy had no imagination whatsoever and merely copied from real life. Another said that "going to bed with him was like being run over by an express train".
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