Don't Tell Alfred
Format: kindle
ASIN: B003FYEXGA
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Humor,
Comedy,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Family,
Modern
Series: Radlett & Montdore (#3)
This is Nancy Mitford cranked up to eleven. It's a little grating when everything is that much more ridiculous, that much more staged, and every character's eccentricity is cranked to eleven. However, it works in everyone's favor when Mitford is exquisitely on point with some of her ruminations abou...
This is probably my least favorite Nancy Mitford which surprised me because it has Paris, Fanny, and diplomacy. I didn't love it but I still liked it very much. I loved seeing Sigi grown up and charming and I'm going to tell people to stop being so feeble.
Of the 3 Nancy Mitford novels I’ve read thus far, this one was a little less satisfying. Fanny Wincham’s life gets into the fast lane when her beloved husband Alfred, an Oxford professor of theology, is appointed the British Ambassador in Paris. The wife of the previous Ambassador (Lady Leone)...
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