Jilly Cooper challenges the assumption that England nowadays is a classless society, and sets out to show how snobbery is alive and well and at home in the English mind. She chronicles the social attitudes and lifestyles of Harry Stow-Crat and his peers, Mr and Mrs Nouveau-Richards, and Jen Teale and her husband Bryan, and makes characteristically wry observations on the courtship behaviour, choice of furnishings, appetites and ambitions of the "merry-tocracy", the "telly-stocracy", and many other inhabitants of castle, Victorian terrace and council flat.
- ISBN10 0394514149
- ISBN13 9780394514147
- Publish Date 1 June 1981 (first published October 1979)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 March 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Alfred A. Knopf
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English