Miss Elizabeth Mapp reigns supreme over the village of Tilling...until the advent of Mrs Emmeline Lucas,or'Lucia'to her friends. No one could compete,surely,with Lucia's formidable armoury: her duchesses,her Italian,her financial speculations,her celebrated recipe for Lobster a la Riseholme. But Mapp will not relinquish her supremacy in local society so easily,and battle is joined between these two indomitable queens and their rather fickle allies.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099528425Number of pages: 336Weight: 240 gDimensions: 198 x 130 x 30 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'Oh the joy of seeing Lucia again! These magic books are as fresh as paint. The characters are real and therefore timeless'- Nancy Mitford,The Times
'No matter how appalling,malicious and pretentious the behaviour of Lucia,the reader is always lured into a sense of affectionate complicity with this comic monster'- The Daily Telegraph
'Bitchily observant novel of small-town life'- Independent
'Sparkles with wicked wit...provides some pointed digs at social one- upmanship and the genteelly disguised venality of the upper classes. But,on another level,it can be hugely enjoyed as class-war subversion'- The Sunday Times
'The pleasure of Mapp and Lucia is summed up,surely,in Alice Roosevelt's bon mot. "If you have nothing good to say about anybody,come and sit right by me."'- Philip Hensher
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