A Surrey State of Affairs (Ceri Radford)

A slightly Sorry State, indeed!! It was cute. I liked the British girl who is just clueless and slightly dim-witted take on a year in the life of a housewife. I thought it was a Wodehouse meets Adrian Mole meets Fawlty Towers all mashed up. Meet Constance Harding, upperclass wife to lawyer Jeffrey who is only known to the reader through her descriptions of him. He seems slightly boring and mechanical and typical. They have 2 children, Sophie and Rupert and they are either going through the general angst of early adulthood (taking off with middle aged Russian thugs or coming out of the closet respectively) Constant starts a blog and chats about her life for a year. The reader is privy to what she knows, which isn't much, and through her stumbles and slightly snobby perceptions of life we can laugh along with her and at her and if you have nothing better to read perhaps become immersed in her thoughts about life and her children and her constant efforts at matchmaking. She has a few friends and has a heart despite her preoccupations with the luxuries of life and people's manners etc. It was sort of predictable but something kept me reading despite having like ten other books going at the same time. I think because I enjoyed Jeeves and Adrian Moles adventures and likened them to be more original I was a little annoyed at this, but not even to DNF it. If you like brit humour this is for you!