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. finds herself slogging through the mud
of a collective farm, coping with Soviet trains and hotels and almost
literally rubbing shoulders with robust citizens at a public beach.