Book Rec of the Day 4/19/2007

“Froth at its best.”—Dominick Dunne

“A deliciously thoroughbred delight, a guilty treat...”—Stephen Fry

Is Julian Fellowes the love child of P. G. Wodehouse and Nancy Mitford? You might wonder when you read his spry send-up of the upper classes of England. It’s a novel that crackles with all the vanity, artifice, and wit we expect from our British humorists. Fellowes won an Academy Award for his screenplay for the film Gosford Park.

SNOBS, by Julian Fellowes (St. Martin’s, 2005)