It isn’t just Nanny who finds it difficult in France when Grace, along with her young son Sigi, is finally able to join her dashing aristocratic husband Charles-Edouard after the war. For Grace is out of her depth among the fashionably dressed and immaculately coiffured French women, and shocked by their relentless gossiping and bed-hopping. When she discovers her husband’s tendency to lust after every pretty girl he sees, it looks like trouble. And things get even more complicated when little Sigi steps in . . .
The Blessing is a hilarious tale of love, fidelity, and the English abroad, tailored as brilliantly as one of Dior’s ‘New Look’ suits.
CRITIQUE QUOTES:
‘Deliciously funny.’ Evelyn Waugh
‘She possesses an enchanting sense of fun, tremendous liveliness, and a genuine interest in life; all combined with the inimitable gift of unfolding a rapid, smooth-running, constantly entertaining narrative.’
Daily Mail
‘We’ve had nothing to eat since you saw us, nothing whatsoever. Course upon course of nasty greasy stuff smelling of garlic – a month’s ration of meat, yes, but quite raw you know – shame, really – I wasn’t going to touch it, let alone give it to Sigi, poor little mite.’
‘Nanny says the cheese was matured in manure,’ Sigi chipped in, eyes like saucers.