'Snobs' by Julian Fellowes -An unfinished review

'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.

Julian Fellowes, ze missing link

So animal-saviour friend arrived.This was obviously followed by a lot of cafe hopping, caffeine laden conversations,alcohol laden conversations,far too much food-laden conversations.Much conversation.(Think Disney version of chattering women).Anyway,so  one of these  involved 'Downton Abbey'.This was triggered by the sight of the book 'Snobs' by Julian Fellowes,peeking out of my bag.I had never heard of 'Downton Abbey' before,perhaps because it isn't airing on Indian television yet.Said friend is big fan of it.'Tis a period drama,set in around 1912,and is about the goings on in the family of Lord Grantham and the many servants of the house.
Turns out,the script writer of ' Downton Abbey' is Julian Fellowes.
Now, cat LOVES these sort of coincidences,they make me all excited for just a little while (friend did not know a thing about the script writer of 'Downton Abbey')