Miss Mapp

The second volume of E.F. Benson's wildly satirical take on the Edwardian English upper class. The books were recently adapted by the BBC into a mini-series starring Sherlock's Mark Gatiss.

Miss Elizabeth Mapp is the self-appointed guardian of good manners and propriety for her upper-crust neighbours in the small town of Tilling, but her job isn't easy, as they are beset from all sides by potential scandals and romantic entanglements (but not the ones that Mapp herself engineers, those are, of course, the good kind).