Snobs
Registered by catsalive of Rooty Hill, New South Wales Australia on 9/3/2016
This book is in a Controlled Release!
3 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by catsalive from Rooty Hill, New South Wales Australia on Saturday, September 3, 2016
Edith Lavery, an English blonde with large eyes and nice manners, is the daughter of a moderately successful accountant and his social-climbing wife. While visiting his parents' stately home as a paying guest, Edith meets Charles, Earl Broughton, and heir to the Marquess of Uckfield, who runs the family estates in East Sussex and Norfolk. To the gossip columns he is one of the most eligible young aristocrats around.
When he proposes. Edith accepts. But is she really in love with Charles? Or with his title, his position, and all that goes with it?
One inescapable part of life at Broughton Hall is Charles's mother, the shrewd Lady Uckfield, known to her friends as "Googie" and described by the narrator---an actor who moves comfortably among the upper classes while chronicling their foibles---"as the most socially expert individual I have ever known at all well. She combined a watchmaker's eye for detail with a madam's knowledge of the world." Lady Uckfield is convinced that Edith is more interested in becoming a countess than in being a good wife to her son. And when a television company, complete with a gorgeous leading man, descends on Broughton Hall to film a period drama, "Googie's" worst fears seem fully justified.
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Witty, well-written, very enjoyable.
When he proposes. Edith accepts. But is she really in love with Charles? Or with his title, his position, and all that goes with it?
One inescapable part of life at Broughton Hall is Charles's mother, the shrewd Lady Uckfield, known to her friends as "Googie" and described by the narrator---an actor who moves comfortably among the upper classes while chronicling their foibles---"as the most socially expert individual I have ever known at all well. She combined a watchmaker's eye for detail with a madam's knowledge of the world." Lady Uckfield is convinced that Edith is more interested in becoming a countess than in being a good wife to her son. And when a television company, complete with a gorgeous leading man, descends on Broughton Hall to film a period drama, "Googie's" worst fears seem fully justified.
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Witty, well-written, very enjoyable.
Journal Entry 2 by catsalive at Book Box, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases on Saturday, September 17, 2016
Released 7 yrs ago (9/15/2016 UTC) at Book Box, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases
CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
Sent to Carole888 from the Oz VBB.
Journal Entry 3 by Carole888 at Perth City, Western Australia Australia on Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Arrived safely! Thank you catsalive. Looking forward to it :)
Released 2 yrs ago (3/29/2022 UTC) at Kununurra, Western Australia Australia
CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
Book exchange at the Kununurra School and Community Library