Hunting Unicorns, Bella Pollen
Hunting Unicorns, Bella Pollen
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Hunting Unicorns

Author: Bella Pollen

Narrator: Christopher Cazanove and Gabrielle de Cuir

Unabridged: 9 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2006

Categories: Fiction


Synopsis

The patrician Bevan family clings to British tradition while wrestling with taxes, tree blight, and family skeletons. Rory, the youngest son, runs a business that rents out the grand mansions for weddings and tours to help the owners pay upkeep on their dilapidated estates. Enter Maggie, an American TV journalist sent to London to do an expos on the aristocracy. She hires Rory to get her access to the most private families. The two immediately clash, bickering until a romance springs up where it seemed least likely. A delightfully funny love story exploring loyalty and family, Hunting Unicorns is ultimately about having the courage to risk everything in the pursuit of what really counts.

About Bella Pollen

Bella Pollen is a writer and journalist who contributes to a wide variety of publications, including the Sunday Telegraph, Vogue, and the Observer. She is the author of two other novels, All About Men and B Movies, Blue Love. She lives in Ladbroke Grove, London.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Helle on January 13, 2013

'Hunting Unicorns' is a well-written, entertaining romp with a heart, and I found myself laughing out loud once or twice, yet felt moved at other times. It's partly about a look into a dying species - the English aristocracy (the 'unicorns', or as one aristo himself calls them: 'dinosaurs') - and pa......more

Goodreads review by Felicity on February 18, 2021

I didn’t know what to think anymore. Were the English aristocracy a class that deserved to be wiped out or an eccentric but splendid remnant of a tribe under threat? This is the question Maggie, an American reporter, asks herself after being assigned to explore and write a story about the dying Briti......more

Goodreads review by Praveen on April 18, 2017

Well, this one was a bit of a surprise – and a delightful one at that. I probably would never have picked up this sardonically funny little book if I hadn't chanced on it in a footpath stall selling second hand books in Thrissur, decrying it as chick-lit. It was on my reading queue for a while, befo......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on June 09, 2008

I wanted this to be better than it was. I liked the subject matter - the opportunity to poke fun at the anachronism that is the English aristocracy - was irresistible. The execution was sadly disappointing. It was ok for a rom com I suppose.......more

Goodreads review by Lindsay on July 27, 2011

A good book for passing the time. A quick read, and very predictable.......more