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Wonderful book. This is by the Screenwriter of Gosford Park. It is a "fun" look into the elite, and the lengths people will go to become a part of that world.

Fellowes (2002 Academy Award-winning screenwriter, for Gosford Park) takes a trenchant look at contemporary England, where class still matters, in this his first novel. English blonde Edith has large eyes and nice manners, and is the daughter of an accountant and his social-climbing wife. An earl falls in love with her, and she accepts his proposal of marriage. It's unclear whether Edith is in love with the earl, Charles, or with his wealth, position, and all that goes with it. She has to wrestle with that question when a TV company with a gorgeous leading man come to the earl's estate to film a period drama.

just a fun read - sort of a "beach reading" kind of book

A basic knowledge of all-things British would certainly increase the pleasure of this social commentary on the practices of the very wealthy. I adored this author as Lord Killwille in Monarch of the Glenn and I thoroughly enjoyed Gosford Park. I believe his wit is spot on and his knowledge of the class system and their foibles are both insiteful and outrageously funny. If it were not England and the English view of "fair play" I do believe he would not be "accepted" at many a banquet or social affair of the highest order. Funny and fun.