About the book
The fourth installment of the popular series-a hilarious study of 1930s manner and pecking order-begins when Lucia Lucas rents a summer place-the home of Elizabeth Mapp-in the English village of Tilling. Between Miss Mapp’s penchant for spying on the neighbors and Lucia’s fussy sidekick, Georgie, the stage is set for a battle of wits.
Reviewed by Milford Reading Group:
We found this book very unrealistic – the characters quite shallow, the language of the characters very immature in some ways and quite irritating. A very select group of people of a certain social group in the 1930s so out of date today.
Star rating: **
Review by Shipton Bellinger WI Reading Group:
The characters are awful and the book is a bit dated but it still made us laugh out loud at times. Mapp and Lucia ply for dominance over village society in the 1920s.
Today Lucia would be CEO of a successful company or running the country, in the past Machiavelli.
Rating: 3 Stars
Review by Basingstoke Afternoon WI
Well written, easy to read. Good observation of characters and society.
Star rating ***
Review by Basingstoke Afternoon WI
Well written, easy to read. Good observation of characters and society.
Star rating ***