Each man opens up a window into a different kind of world: Tony Kroesig ( Freddie Fox), an Oxford student, banker’s son, and eventual member of the House of Lords Christian Talbot ( James Frecheville), an avowed Communist and ally to laborers, in particular those rising up during the Spanish Civil War and Duke Fabrice de Sauveterre ( Assaad Bouab), a wealthy Frenchman whose appreciation for fashion and art is balanced by his involvement in the French Resistance.Īs Linda moves spontaneously through the world, Fanny stays put and worries much of the tension of “The Pursuit of Love” comes from that imbalance. “She was a wild and nervous creature, full of passion and longing,” Fanny (who serves as the series’ narrator) says of Linda, and Linda whole-heartedly throws herself into one relationship after another. Alconleigh is ruled by Linda’s tyrannical father Matthew ( Dominic West), whose hatred of foreigners and refusal to let his children-especially his daughters-be educated has inspired in Linda a passionately emotional nature, and a desperate desire to grow up and leave her family.Įach episode of “The Pursuit of Love” tracks the cousins as they attempt to navigate pending adulthood, and their routine becomes Linda falling for a man, deciding she’s in love, leaving Fanny to be with him, and then realizing that she hasn’t found happiness at all. Each Christmas, Fanny visits Linda at her family’s manor house Alconleigh in the English countryside. Deeply hurt by her mother’s abandonment, Fanny grows into a practical, logical young woman. Fanny is the only daughter of the Bolter (Mortimer), a woman who left her to be raised by her Aunt Emily (Annabel Mullion) while the Bolter dove into a string of relationships.

Beginning in 1941 before jumping back to 1927 and moving linearly forward, “The Pursuit of Love” follows cousins Fanny Logan ( Emily Beecham) and Linda Radlett ( Lily James).

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