FROM THE CREATOR OF DOWNTON ABBEY and THE GILDED AGE ** A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A modern classic that will fill any Downton -shaped hole' Daily Express 'A delicious thoroughbred delight' Stephen Fry 'A brilliantly malicious portrait of upper-class society and all those who long to be accepted by them' Jilly Cooper Edith Lavery is a woman on the make. The attractive only child of a middle-class accountant, she leaves behind her dull job in a Chelsea estate agents and manages to bag one of the most eligible bachelors of the day - Charles Broughton, heir to the Marquess of Uckfield. But is life amongst the upper echelons of 'good' society all that it seems? 'Horribly compelling' _The Times _ 'Provocative, titillating and seductive' Spectator ** 'Everything you would hope for from the writer of Gosford Park ' Stephen Fry