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Honest, faithful and fantastically enjoyable: BBC1’s The Pursuit of Love reviewed

The writer/director Emily Mortimer has played a very clever trick, slipping a deeply subversive adaptation under the BBC radar

That bath scene: Linda (Lily James) and Fanny (Emily Beecham) in BBC1's The Pursuit of Love. Image: Theodora Films Limited & Moonage Pictures Limited / Robert Viglasky
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