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The Interminable Saga of an Insufferable Family
Thomas Dunne
December 2013
On Sale: December 3, 2013
192 pages ISBN: 1250031230 EAN: 9781250031235 Kindle: B00DA72Y68 Hardcover / e-Book
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Welcome to Downtrodden Abbey, whereΒ aΒ battle for the deed to the property is waged between legitimate aristocrats and literal pretenders to the throne.Β TheΒ Crawfish familyβMarry, Supple, Enid, Lady Flora, and Lord Roderickβare content wiling their days away withΒ naughtyΒ charades and twenty-two courseΒ dinners until the sinking of the Gigantic takesΒ down the next in line to inherit Downtrodden. Soon, cousin Isabich and her son, Atchew, the rightfulΒ heir to the Abbey, arrive to claim what's theirs.Β Downstairs, the servants are running amok, as crippled weaklingΒ Brace is aggressively courted byΒ teen hottie Nana, and lady's maid "Potatoes"Β O'Grotten and her flamboyant sidekick, Tomaine, cause troubleΒ at every turn. The ensuing, insufferably overwrought melodrama takes the reader upstairs and downstairs, into parlours and drawing rooms, boudoirs and bathrooms, and across every classβfrom the classiest to the classlessβin the social pecking order of Edwardian England. Uproariously funny, with a wicked sense of humor that DowntonΒ AbbeyΒ diehards will enjoy, Gillians Fetlocks skewers your favorite characters with panache in this winningΒ parody
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