The tweedy Miss Hetty Braid worships the lovely but selfish Miss Antonia Mount, her co-proprietor at the most exclusive finishing school on the French Riviera. The girls they teach are quite remarkable, though hardly in the sense of academic distinction. But trouble looms when Antonia announces that 'Royalty is coming.' The great day arrives, and though at first things go tolerably well, disaster springs from good intentions.
This Faber Finds edition includes a 1987 introduction by Brigid Brophy and a new preface by Sir Peter Stothard.
'A wicked little entertainment... plaubly not meant for the moralists or naive.' Evening Standard
'An outrageously indelicate joke made in beautifully mannered prose.' Daily Herald
'Waspish and witty.' TLS
- ISBN10 0854490590
- ISBN13 9780854490592
- Publish Date 18 May 1987 (first published June 1966)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 26 April 2007
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Millivres-Prowler Group Ltd
- Imprint Gay Men's Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 128
- Language English