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Title: The Pursuit of Love
Author: Nancy Mitford
Narrator: Emilia Fox
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-06-10
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 34 votes
Genres: Fiction, Chick Lit
Publisher's Summary:
The Pursuit of Love is one of the funniest and most biting novels about love and growing up ever written, by the author of Love in a Cold Climate.
Oh, the boredom of waiting to grow up! Longing for love, obsessed with weddings and sex, Linda and her sisters and cousin Fanny fantasise about the perfect lover. But finding Mr Right proves difficult, and Linda must bear marriage with both Tony the stuffy Tory MP and gorgeously handsome but humourless communist Christian before finding real passion in war-torn Paris with Fabrice.
Members Reviews:
Loved it
What made the experience of listening to The Pursuit of Love the most enjoyable?
After a stressful day it was a pleasure to lister to such an amusing and well read story.
What about Emilia Foxs performance did you like?
Great!!!!!!!
Great book, so-so narration
This is one of my favourite books and I have been desperate for its audiobook release. I think Emilia Fox's narration was very ordinary, sometimes bordering on annoying. Patricia Hodge reading its companion book, "Love in a Cold Climate" is much better.
The Pursuit of Love
This is a favourite book of mine: intelligent, witty and with what must be one of the saddest final lines in literature. Though I have read it countless times, I was thrilled to find it had been released as an audiobook, and very much enjoyed listening to it. Emilia Fox does an excellent job of the reading, and I hope very much that the companion novel, Love in a Cold Climate (which shares many of the settings and characters), also gets released for audio.
A good listen, a better read.
What did you like best about The Pursuit of Love? What did you like least?
Nancy Mitford's tale of the life of Linda, told through the ever-loving eyes of her cousin Fanny, is effortlessly enchanting and often gloriously funny. Each character possesses some mildly eccentric characteristics, perhaps only with the exception of Fanny herself. A modern listener may find certain passages quaint and dated, but the underlying themes are of perpetual interest today.
What was one of the most memorable moments of The Pursuit of Love?
Their childhoods - who doesn't want a Hon's cupboard now?
Would you listen to another book narrated by Emilia Fox?
Yes; I Capture the Castle is brilliantly read, so much so that you fogey you are listening to an audiobook and are entirely swept up by the story. Here, however, she feels a little younger in terms of her narrative style, and sometimes you are left feeling that she hasn't quite got the sense of one or two phrases or passages.
Did The Pursuit of Love inspire you to do anything?
To pursue more Mitford.
Any additional comments?
A bucket list book if nothing else; you feel changed by it, which can only be the sign of good writing. Despite its feminine appearance, it tackles numerous subjects from politics, feminism, war, religion and that transitional period in English society that has now gone forever. A book that very eloquently defies a lot of misconceptions.
A wonderful book very badly read.
The Pursuit of Love has been one of my favourite books since I first read it aeons ago. Unfortunately, here it is entirely spoiled by Emilia Fox's flat, anaemic narration. I have listened to a couple of audible books read by Ms Fox and she simply cannot act.
