DON'T TELL ALFRED 不要告诉艾弗瑞德

'I believe it would have been normal for me to have paid a visitto the outgoing ambassadress. However, the said ambassadress hadset up such an uninhibited wail when she knew she was to leave,proclaiming her misery to all and sundry and refusing so furiouslyto look on the bright side, that is was felt she might not be verynice to me'. Fanny is married to absent-minded Oxford don Alfredand content with her role as a plain, tweedy housewife with'ghastly' clothes. But overnight her life changes when Alfred isappointed English Ambassador to Paris. In the blink of an eye,Fanny's mixing with Royalty, Rothschilds and Dior-clad wives,throwing cocktail parties and having every indiscreet remarkprinted in tomorrow's papers. But with the love lives of her newfriends to organize, an aristocratic squatter who won't budge andthe antics of her maverick sons to thwart, Fanny's far too busy toworry about the diplomatic crisis looming on the horizon..."Don'tTell Alfred" continues the hilarious stories of characters NancyMitford introduced in "The Pursuit of Love", "Love in a ColdClimate" and "The Blessing".