Found this pretty lame and repetitive, actually. Big comedown after Highland Fling.

Despite its name, this is not in any real sense a Christmas novel. So was I disappointed at this choice this time of year? No, as this was a very funny and sharply observed satire of upper class mores in the early 1930s (published in 1933). The titular "pudding" is the combination of eccentric characters and traditions Lady Bobbin hosts at her Christmas house party in Gloucester (though this party only lasts really for one or two of the 21 chapters). Foremost among these guests is Paul Fotheringhay, a frustrated author who wants to write a biography of Lady Bobbin's literary ancestor Maria Bobbin and who is present in the guise of a tutor to her son Bobby. This was laugh out loud funny and I would definitely read more of Nancy Mitford's novels. ( )

Light hearted romp, in the Bertie Wooster mould, involving the upper classes in 1930’s England. County women who live for the hunt, sophisticated schoolboys & a bored young woman playing at falling in love with a penniless charmer, then choosing marriage to a boring rich man with a title.

I expect many of Mitford’s contemporaries chuckled in recognition at the various pragmatic types represented here. ( )

NM is always so funny and interesting in her accounts of the upper class. Thoroughly enjoyed this light hearted fare, sort of a hybrid of Jane Austen and P.G. Wodehouse.
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Clever and fun! ( )