'Snobs' is about the English upper crust.The fake-fox hunting,tweed wearing,posh butler employing kind of people who say "I say!" at very short intervals(obviously, this comes from someone who has read far too many P.G Wodehouse novels,and never been to the U.K,and therefore erronously imagines the British aristocracy to be Woosterish) .
It is about how those at the periphery try to climb aboard , and if they stumble unelegantly while they're at it,then so be it.
It was Edith Lavery's mother, more than Edith herself,who wanted her to marry 'well'.And this she did soon after being introduced to the soporific Charles by her wanna-be aristocrat friends.
(Charles reminds me of Abhinav Bindra, the Olympic shooter,who has been described by the media as having a 'comatose personality'.He also reminds me of Anna karenina's husband).He is pretty bland,definitely not metrosexual and is terrified of anything overtly feminine.
And I shall stop at that.
Edith Lavery is the beautiful daughter of a wealthy accountant and his wife who aspire to marry their daughter into the aristocracy. She manages to enthrall Charles, Earl Broughton, heir to the Marquess of Uckfield, when she meets him as a day visitor to his "stately home"(shades of Hyacinth Bucket)and they marry, to the delight of her mother and the total dismay of his.After nearly two years of boredom, Edith realises that the fairytale life that she had imagined accompanied the title of Countess, just simply didn't exist and she succumbs to the charms of an actor who is starring in a tv series, using the familys country home as its backdrop. Simon is stikingly handsome in a slightly effeminate way and, as sex with her worthy but dull husband has never been more than perfunctory, embarks on a sizzling affair with ends with her leaving her husband and moving into a small flat with her handsome but totally self obssessed lover. The gilt wears off the gingerbread after 8 months and poor stupid Edith does everything she can to win back the trust of her husband. The story of a certain type of hangers-on who live in the shadow of the truly uppercrust is bitingly spot-on and the efforts that they go to in an effort to be included with that set is really pathetically accurate. This was SUCH a good laugh, albeit a slightly guilty one!
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