It's after reading in The Express tasty interview with the author, an actor and English writer, conservative and aristocratic, full of irony on his environment but also defending in many ways, as I wanted to procure his book.
I have not been disappointed: the author describes a world he knows well since he comes from: the English aristocracy of his youth (60 years) and its decay.
The screenplay, very well put together, is a pretext for crisp portraits, brilliant description of colorful characters: one evolves among the rich, VERY rich: the author delights in very cinematic scenes to forge intrigues background rallies, arranged marriages and garden parties in prestigious areas of English.
The book is peppered with well-felt reflections on the evolution of society, the hypocrisy of this Conservative world (to which it is attached, however) but also the more modern Labour ideas, not free of contradictions and self-righteousness.
Sassy, twisting, obviously worldly and, to some extent, snob (but looking back as proof of superior intelligence, and that makes this taste for compliance codes, the superfluous, and appearance, almost " necessary "to secure the Show of life!) this book is tasted like a glass of Champagne. No viper's tongue, hard and lucid about the shortcomings of his characters, but also gentle with them ... this novel is a success!
I spent my reading to laugh, lift passages, read my husband (who is in the middle of reading the book right now, what chance it), photographing pages, exclaim "but what that it is seen ".
I literally fell in love with humor pest of the author, English lag which makes every talented sentence, which highlights how the mind more than humor is a gift that everyone does not have. I would write as well as Julian Fellowes, also have a keen eye, subtle and biting on society.
