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Keeping Up Appearances was definitely in my mind when I read this. I enjoyed this in nearly the same way but if I had tried to read this one on my Kindle I doubt I would have made it past chapter 1. It is not something I could have forced myself to finish. That said, instead I listened to the Overdrive audio version by Nadia May (Wanda McCaddon/Donada Peters) and enjoyed it quite a bit. In the rubber-necking at an accident kind of way. You can't not watch, but you know you really shouldn't.
The only characters I enjoyed were Olga and Georgie's sisters Hermione and Ursula (I really liked these two; the female, slightly tidier versions of Onslow from KuA). I didn't care much for the main cast (Lucia, Georgie, the Quantocks). Lucia and Georgie's baby talk and the Lucas's "Italian" would drive me nuts. I can't stand it when my 6 y.o. uses baby talk with her friends, let alone adults. I wish Peppino had been more sympathetic; he doesn't get too involved with the nonsense but he doesn't exactly distance himself either and he would have been a good foil, ala Richard Bucket, "pronounced 'Bouquet'".
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