These highly acclaimed, delightful novels are written in diary form by the Provincial Lady, who lives in a country house with her husband, two children, the children's French governess, Cook and a few assorted helpers. The era of the 1930s is wittily and shrewdly recreated with amusing illustrations.

The P.L. takes a flat in London where she meets assorted literati and other types, goes to cabarets and casinos and writes about new and memorable characters.