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Review of: “The Pursuit of Love” Amazon Prime
I binge watched this the other day because, having just returned from a truly wonderful beach vacation (with sunburn and bruises from the crashing waves) I’ve been feeling the need to rest and recuperate or, as one of my friends said earlier “You now need a vacation from the vacation itself.”
The character of “Linda” is described by her cousin “Fanny” as: “Nobody cried so often or so much as Linda, especially anything about animals would set her off. Her emotions were on no ordinary plain. She loved or she loathed. She laughed or she cried. She lived in a world of superlatives. Even then, Linda’s fantasies were altogether more ambitious and dangerous than mine.” As Linda herself says: “I aspire to true love, the kind which only comes once in a lifetime and lasts forever.”
And, for those reading this blog, who know me, this description of Linda is very much akin to me: a Romantic with a Capital “R”…impetuous, impulsive and fairly recently referred to as “a free spirit”…when, in the story, Lord Merlin appears in all his “Dandy Glory” he shows Linda a whole other way of life and, as Fanny (the narrator in the story) says of Linda after this encounter: “But the brief appearance of Lord Merlin’s house party only made the walls of Linda’s fortress…
