Fanny marries Alfred, who is an Oxford scholar. Linda has married Tony and bears their child, Moira. At the wedding reception, Fanny collides auspiciously with Alfred Wynchham-and comforts an inauspiciously shaking Linda. Fanny, Davey and Merlin are against it, and Tony's ancient German ancestry infuriates Lord Alconleigh, but they do marry. Time passes, and she falls for Tony Kroesig, the egotistical son of the Governor of the Bank of England. Linda is smitten by a neighbour, Lord Merlin, a notoriously eccentric artist, who tells her that she needs educating.

“Davey” Warbeck, home for Christmas Fanny discovers them asleep in bed together. At 17, Fanny and Linda long for life to begin. Lord Alconleigh loathes educated women, who cannot ride and use words like “mantelpiece”. Fanny has been educated at school, but Linda has not. Fanny was raised by her aunt Emily after her mother ran off (repeat performances earned her the name 'The Bolter').

She is bombed out, and on the drive to the Radlett's baronial estate, her devoted cousin Fanny reminisces about her own visits there, and the misadventures of Linda: “a wild and nervous creature, full of passion and longing”. Linda Radlett is sunbathing-very pregnant and naked save for a fur coat-on the roof of her Chelsea flat.

Swift & Scarlet as Lord Merlin's whippetsġ941.

Shazad Latif as Alfred Wyncham/Wincham.

John Heffernan as Davey (Aunt Emily's fiancée).

Emily Mortimer as The Bolter (Fanny's real mother Emily & Sadie's younger sister).

Annabel Mullion as Aunt Emily (Fanny's de facto mother).

Beattie Edmondson as The Honourable Louisa Radlett (Linda's older sister).

Dolly Wells as Sadie Radlett, Lady Alconleigh (Linda's mother).

Dominic West as Matthew Radlett, Lord Alconleigh (Linda's father).

Lily James as The Honourable Linda Radlett (Fanny's cousin).Emily Beecham as Fanny Logan (the narrator).Two cousins navigate their lives and friendship, as they seek different things in life. It is based on the 1945 novel The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford, which had previously been adapted as Love in a Cold Climate (1980 TV series) and Love in a Cold Climate (2001 TV series). The Pursuit of Love is a British romance drama television miniseries written and directed by Emily Mortimer.

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