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SNOBS is the story of Edith Lavery, who earns a living answering the telephone in a Chelsea-based estate agents. She is the attractive only child of a comfortably-off accountant. When she attends Royal Ascot as a guest of friends, she meets bachelor Charles Broughton, who as Earl Broughton and heir to the Marquess of Uckfield, is a gossip-column favourite. He proposes, she accepts - and here is the crux of the story: is she really in love with Charles or with his title and all that goes with it? The story is narrated by a journeyman character actor who comfortably moves among the upper and middle classes, while observing their foibles. Superbly observed, the story includes a fabulous character in Charles's mother, Lady Uckfield, known as 'Googie', who wants for her son the daughter of a peer from the old, familiar world she knows and trusts. She perceives Edith to be a young woman on the make, and is vindicated when Edith, now Countess Broughton, falls for a blonde good-looking actor. Fellowes resolves his story with twists and turns aplenty. This is a tale worthy of a contemporary Jane Austen with a dash of Evelyn Waugh.
| ISBN-13 | 9780297848769 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0297848763 |
| Weight | 1.31 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 6.38 x 1.22 x 9.57 In |
| Edition | 1st Edition |
| Format | Hardcover |
|---|---|
| Pages | 320 pages |
| Publisher | W&N |
| Published On | 2004-01-01 |
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0297848763. Signed by author; 9.2 X 6.2 X 1.3 inches; 320 pages; Signed by author.
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