Darling: A razor-sharp, gloriously funny retelling of Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love

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Laika, the youngest, retreats into a contactless digital life, designing the trading algorithms that will ultimately prove his downfall in a condo near Wall Street.

You need to know and love Nancy Mitford's "The Pursuit of Love" to really appreciate this very clever updating of the novel for the 2020s. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. Darling is a black forest gateau of a book: rich characters, sumptuous prose, delicious dialogue, and layered throughout with sharp wit and intelligence .It’s easy to dismiss the domestic, but if home is where the heart is, the heart is where all humanity happens. To do the book justice, it's nicely written and zips along at a fine pace, which it what you'd expect from such an insubstantial piece of fluff. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

However, we are reaching out to the Catholic community and readership, that has been so loyal to the Catholic Herald. There were a lot of sidetracked and half-completed conversations - I could picture them all talking while eating, cleaning the house, watching TV and doing a million other things at the same time. In the author’s reimagining, Linda and her siblings grow up as “utter freaks” on the sprawling Alconleigh farm in north Norfolk. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins.

How on earth do you transpose a novel so distinctive, and whose plot hinges on the fraught political backdrop of early 20th-century Europe, to today’s world? Tony is still a very dull banker, Christian is a poet and Fabrice owns a few boutique hotels in Paris.