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Wigs on the Green

By: Nancy Mitford
Narrated by: John Heffernan
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Wigs on the Green by Nancy Mitford is a hilarious satire of the upper classes.

Eugenia Malmains is one of the richest girls in England and an ardent supporter of Captain Jack and the Union Jackshirts. Noel and Jasper are both in search of an heiress (so much easier than trying to work for the money). Poppy and Marjorie are nursing lovelorn hearts, and the beautiful bourgeois Mrs Lace is on the prowl for someone near Eugenia's fabulous country home at Chalford, and much farce ensues.

One of Nancy Mitford's earliest novels, Wigs on the Green has been out of print for nearly 75 years. Nancy's sisters, Unity and Diana, were furious with her for making fun of Diana's husband, Oswald Moseley, and his politics, and the book caused a rift between them all that endured for years. Nancy Mitford skewers her family and their beliefs with her customary jewelled barbs, but there is froth, comedy and heart here, too.
©1935 Nancy Mitford (P)2021 Penguin Audio
Classics Fiction Literature & Fiction Women's Fiction Comedy Funny Heartfelt Witty
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"Deliciously funny." (Evelyn Waugh)

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Satire, the best form of attack

The first thing to understand when reading this early Mitford novel is the environment in which she lived. A world of aristocracy, wedding proposal and parties. She satirises not only that society but in a thinly veiled disguise, her sisters, Unity and Diana. There is use of languages & attitudes which might offend modern readers but was common place when Mitford was writing.

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