
Our favorite parody
Welcome to Downtrodden Abbey, where a battle for
the deed to the property is waged between legitimate
aristocrats and literal pretenders to the
throne. The Crawfish family—Marry, Supple, Enid,
Lady Flora, and Lord Roderick—are content wiling their days
away with naughty charades and twenty-two
course dinners until the sinking of the Gigantic
takes down the next in line to inherit Downtrodden.
Soon, cousin Isabich and her son, Atchew, the
rightful heir to the Abbey, arrive to claim what's
theirs. Downstairs, the servants are running amok, as crippled
weakling Brace is aggressively courted by teen
hottie Nana, and lady's maid "Potatoes" O'Grotten and
her flamboyant sidekick, Tomaine, cause trouble 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 class—from
the classiest to the classless—in the social pecking order
of Edwardian England. Uproariously funny, with a wicked sense of humor that
Downton Abbey diehards will enjoy, Gillians
Fetlocks skewers your favorite characters with panache in
this winning parody
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