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

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The book starts with the kids growing up in rural Norfolk – with the occasional trip to Cromer for the children’s excitement. In fact, nobody in my book group really rated it - mostly, the reaction was: "Why bother writing it at all?

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Her first venture into literature was 2000’s My Life on a Plate, charting a woman’s complicated family life which was more or less a fictionalised account of her own story. It takes chutzpah to tackle a national treasure as jealously loved and gatekept as Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love. She knows she doesn't want to marry 'a man who looks like a pudding', as her good and dull sister Louisa has done, and marries the flashy, handsome son of a UKIP peer instead.I think we can all relate to the struggles that Linda faces, as well as a loathe for the Christians and Tonys of the world.