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A Footman for the Peacock
Rachel Ferguson

£9.99

Controversial when first published in the early days of World War II, due to its treatment of a loathsome upper-crust family dodging wartime responsibility, A Footman for the Peacock can now be enjoyed as a scathing satire of class abuses, a comic masterpiece falling somewhere between Barbara Pym and Monty Python.

Dean Street Press, 9781911413714
Paperback 220pp

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