Snobs: From the creator of DOWNTON ABBEY and THE GILDED AGE - Softcover

A wildly funny novel about aristocrats and social climbers . . . Not since Proust has a novelist worked so hard to decipher the tiny clues that enable toffs to spot the arrivistes who ape their manners - Daily Telegraph SNOBS is everything you would hope for from the writer of GOSFORD PARK. A delicious thoroughbred delight, a guilty treat that is awake toevery maddening and appallingly attractive nuance of English social life A cast of rackety aristos and aspiring toffs who might have slipped straight from the pages of a Jane Austen novel; it's spiky, Emma Woodhouse-style asides make SNOBS irresistible - Mail on Sunday Apart from its virtues as a riveting social history, this is a gripping novel crafted by someone with effortless grasp of character and dialogue that invites generous comparison with Evelyn Waugh - Evening Standard Fellowes doesn't try to hide his love of the funny, sealed, above-stairs world of dukes, duchesses, marquesses, nursery maids, herbaceous borders and breakfast kedgeree, all of which makes SNOBS such a a good, fresh read - Daily Telegraph