Dont Tell Alfred is the wickedly funny sequel to Nancy Mitfords The Pursuit of Love, which is now a major BBC series and Prime Video series directed by Emily Mortimer starring Lily James, Andrew Scott and Dominic West, and Love in a Cold ClimateI believe it would have been normal for me to have paid a visit to the outgoing ambassadress. However the said ambassadress had set up such an uninhibited wail when she knew she was to leave, proclaiming her misery to all and sundry and refusing so furiously to look on the bright side, that it was felt she might not be very nice to me.Fanny is married to absentminded Oxford don Alfred and content with her role as a plain, tweedy housewife. But overnight her life changes when Alfred is appointed English Ambassador to Paris. In the blink of an eye, Fannys mixing with royalty, Rothschilds and Diorclad wives, throwing cocktail parties and having every indiscreet remark printed in tomorrows papers.But with the love lives of her new friends to organize, an aristocratic squatter who wont budge and the antics of her maverick sons to thwart, Fannys far too busy to worry about the diplomatic crisis looming on the horizon . . .Peerless Zoe HellerA comic genius Independent on SundayDeliciously funny Evelyn Waugh

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