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This book tells an intriguing story of "be careful what you wish for because you may get it" from both the "getting" and the "giving up" standpoint. Although I normally avoid audio books read by the author, it really works for this book. The author certainly seems to know his subject matter well. Bright and beautiful, but middle-class, Edith meets Charles Broughton, a sweet, but rather dull lord of the British aristocracy, and marries him, but life does not turn out to be quite the glamorous fairy tale life she had fantasied - or, in looking back, was it really the best? The author develops the major characters well though it is sometimes difficult to keep all the minor characters straight. The story is told with a light hand and kept me quite engaged to see how things would play out. I had not realized how strong the class system was in Britain as represented by this story and it was an absorbing peek into the inner workings of this upper-crust society.

Excellent story by the author of Gosford Park. What happiness does social climbing really bring? Can "ordinary" people marrying into the aristocracy ever truely fit in? Even in the modern world, the class structure still stands, weakened over time, but a barrier nevertheless. Lots of humour and sarcasm. Very funny and a little sad.

Very witty story that I thoroughly enjoyed once I got all the characters names straight

Interesting To listen to. At first I thought the details of the class structure would take away from the plot - but it really enhanced it.