FROM THE CREATOR OF DOWNTON ABBEY and THE GILDED AGE A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A modern
classic that will fill any Downton -shaped hole' Daily Express 'A delicious thoroughbred
delight' Stephen Fry 'A brilliantly malicious portrait of upper-class society and all those
who long to be accepted by them' Jilly Cooper Edith Lavery is a woman on the make. The
attractive only child of a middle-class accountant she leaves behind her dull job in a Chelsea
estate agents and manages to bag one of the most eligible bachelors of the day - Charles
Broughton heir to the Marquess of Uckfield. But is life amongst the upper echelons of 'good'
society all that it seems? 'Horribly compelling' The Times 'Provocative titillating and
seductive' Spectator 'Everything you would hope for from the writer of Gosford Park ' Stephen
Fry
