May 2012 On Sale: May 8, 2012 288 pages ISBN: 1250020360 EAN: 9781250020369 Kindle: B003J4VEIQ Paperback / e-Book (reprint) Add to Wish List Historical Buy at Amazon.com Enjoy Downton Abbey-esque novel Snobs by Julian Fellowes From the creator of the Emmy Award-winning Downton Abbey… “The English, of all classes as it happens, are addicted to exclusivity. Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.” The best comedies of manners are often deceptively simple, seamlessly blending social critique with character and story. In his superbly observed first novel, Julian Fellowes, creator of the Masterpiece sensation Downton Abbey and winner of an Academy Award for his original screenplay of Gosford Park, brings us an insider’s look at a contemporary England that is still not as classless as is popularly supposed. Edith Lavery, an English blonde with large eyes and nice manners, is the daughter of a moderately successful accountant and his social-climbing wife. While visiting his parents’ stately home as a paying guest, Edith meets Charles, the Earl Broughton, and heir to the Marquess of Uckfield, who runs the family estates in East Sussex and Norfolk. To the gossip columns he is one…