Don't Tell Alfred by Nancy Mitford
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Book Summary Author: Nancy Mitford Edition: Paperback Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Published: 1990-04 ISBN: 0881845973 Number of pages: 223 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers |
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Book Reviews of the Don't Tell Alfred
Customer Review: Fun, but not Mitford's best
Summary: 4 Stars
Don't Tell Alfred catches up with some of the characters from The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford's two masterpieces. Once again Fanny Logan is the narrator, but this time the action is set in Paris, where Fanny's husband has been appointed the British Ambassador. Fanny has to deal with the problem of the preceding Ambassadress still being in residence and refusing to leave, then with the multiple problems that come with being related to the Radletts, who are made out to be the battiest aristocrats in Britain.Don't Tell Alfred was written in the late 1950s while Nancy Mitford was living in Paris. A lot of the political inside jokes will fly right over the heads of most readers today, and Mitford's attempts to depict Teddy Boys and rock and roll bands must have seemed unintentionally comic even then.
Even though this is not one of Mitford's best works, it does have her sharp wit and felicitous turns of phrase, and for those alone the book is well worth the reading.