Tag Archives: Julian Fellowes

Everybody Rise

Posted on August 13, 2015 by Meg

Everybody Rise is a lifestyle-porn New York adventure with a likeable protagonist, a middle-class girl pretending to the world of deb balls and multimillion-dollar getaway cottages. I love lifestyle and manners novels, with a blatant escapist love for the gorgeous, the exclusive and … Continue reading →

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The Manners Fandom

Posted on March 11, 2015 by Meg

I choose Snobs at the library entirely because it’s by Julian Fellowes, from Downton Abbey, and I was not disappointed. Snobs is sort of a double comedy of manners, half titled Brits surrounded by those who wish they were too, … Continue reading →

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