Sunday Times Children’s Book of the Week 14 May 2023
Cover illustration by Emma Block.
“A pastiche journal in the style of Nancy Mitford or Dodie Smith, but with more references to penises, this very funny novel is the story of an eccentric family of newly fatherless sisters, the Mannerings, ousted from their home for lack of a male heir.” Sunday Times
Take a peek into the diary of Panth (never enquire as to her given name), a young woman knocking on the gilded door of adult life and high society. But kicking up one’s heels at the Cafe de Paris does not come easily to a girl navigating:
1. Poverty (even the genteel kind), thanks to her papa’s sad demise
2. A lack of any experience whatsoever with the opposite sex, of course not counting Freddy Spencer (and he wasn’t that sort of experience, anyhow) 3. Multiple sisters with ideas, a grandmother with opinions and one recalcitrant sheep
Panth knows there is more for her out in the world – it’s 1924, for goodness’ sake – and that could include swoonsome American with excellent teeth, Buck Buchanan. The question is – how in the name of Tatler is she to claim it?
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