This is one of the three books I have on hand to give away to unsuspecting readers who enter my house. I learned about it in 2005 Lost & Found essay in by Diana Fox. I gobbled up that essay and went to the bookstore right away and tracked the book down. It’s a smart, scrumptious read by a 20th century woman of letters that most Americans have never heard of, even though (or perhaps because) she wrote 101 Dalmatians. If you order it from your bookseller, ask them to procure you the paperback with the illustrated cover. That’s what I do. The new edition features a scene from the movie, which is a bland, perhaps terrible, attempt at a Merchant Ivory production.