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 In this pleasant humor, Fanny—the calmly observant narrator of Nancy Mitford’s two most well-known novels—finally requires middle stage.Fanny Wincham—last regarded as a small lady in The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate—has lived fortunately for a long time as housewife to an absent minded Oxford don, Alfred. But her life changes overnight when her precious Alfred is hired British Ambassador to Paris. Soon she finds herself mixing with Rothschilds and royalty while fighting her hysterical precursor, Woman Leone, who will not leave the premises. When Fanny’s soft-hearted assistant starts completing the embassy with her teen-age kids and recovered pets try to escape from Eton and appear with a rock-star in tow, things get completely beyond control.