The Pursuit of Love

The carefree 1920s—an era of youth and beauty for Linda and Louise Redlett and their cousin Fanny Logan. Freed from years of harsh Victorian morals and recovering from the nightmare of the First World War, Britain’s “golden youth” throws itself into a whirlwind of dizzying dances, the clink of glasses at parties, and the rapid flight of fashionable racing cars. Marriages are entered lightly and fall apart just as lightly. Spirited and scandalous affairs begin. Society’s cream—aristocracy, the bourgeoisie, and bohemia—mixes as if different kinds of alcohol were poured into a cocktail. Life is wonderful!

And yet the carefree 1920s give way to anxious 1930s, and on the horizon the first, still distant, rumbles of a new war are already heard…