Academy Award-winning Author of Gosford Park The best comedies of manners are often deceptively simple, seamlessly blending social critique with character and story. In his superbly observed first novel, Julian Fellowes brings us an insider's look at a contemporary England that is still not as classless as is popularly supposed. This wickedly astute portrait of the intersecting worlds of aristocrats and actors establishes Fellowes as a deliciously witty chronicler of modern manners.
