the ensuing, insufferably overwrought melodrama takes the reader upstairs and downstairs, into parlours and drawing rooms, boudoirs and bathrooms, and across every class―from the classiest to the classless―in the social pecking order of edwardian england. uproariously funny, with a wicked sense of humor that downton abbey diehards will enjoy, gillians fetlocks skewers your favorite characters with panache in this winning parody