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No matter how appalling, malicious and pretentious the behaviour of Lucia, the reader is always lured into a sense of affectionate complicity with this comic monster * Daily Telegraph * Bitchily observant novel of small-town life * Independent * Sparkles with wicked wit...provides some pointed digs at social one- upmanship and the genteelly disguised venality of the upper classes. But, on another level, it can be hugely enjoyed as class-war subversion * Sunday Times * The pleasure of Mapp and Lucia is summed up, surely, in Alice Roosevelt's bon mot. If you have nothing good to say about anybody, come and sit right by me. -- Philip Hensher Oh the joy of seeing Lucia again! These magic books are as fresh as paint. The characters are real and therefore timeless -- Nancy Mitford * The Times *
