Mrs Ames

Part of The Bloomsbury Group, a new library of books from the early twentieth-century chosen by readers for readers. Combined sales of the series last year were over 13,000 copies Mrs Ames is a lost delight akin to E. F. Benson's classic Mapp and Lucia novels which also focused on the idiosyncrasies of village life The Mapp and Lucia novels were made into the classic television series starring Prunella Scales and Nigel Hawthorne Calendar Girls meets Keeping Up Appearances in a 1930s Sussex village

From the author of the much-loved Mapp and Lucia series comes an unforgettable small-town heroineReigning over a social merry-go-round of dinners and parties, Mrs Ames is the undisputed queen bee of Riseborough. That is, until vivacious new villager Mrs Evans catches the eye of both her son and her husband. Not content with captivating the men in her life, 'that wonderful creature' Mrs Evans becomes not just rival to Mrs Ames' marriage, but rival to her village throne. When the whole of Riseborough is invited to Mrs Evans' masked costume party, action must be taken. As the date looms, the irrepressible Mrs Ames resolves to seize the chance to win back her position, and thus, her man.