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Scourge of the supersnobs: As his joyous satire on middle-class bitchiness
comes to TV, the VERY eccentric life of the Queen Mum's favourite author

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One really was most amused. The Queen Mother’s favourite novels were
hilarious, pin-sharp satires on English snobbery and the lives of a
pair of bickering small-town snobs — Mapp and Lucia.

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each manoeuvring to be supreme empress of their social circle in a
Sussex town in the Twenties. Fans regard the original books as the most
acute satire on the British middle classes ever penned.

Dinner parties and bridge nights are the ladies’ battleground, and