This novel is a strikingly original creation an archschemer and socialclimber from the English village of Tilling. A fortyish spinster anger andthe gravest susp... » 

This novel is a strikingly original creation an archschemer and socialclimber from the English village of Tilling. A fortyish spinster anger andthe gravest suspicion about everybody had kept her young and on the boil.Elizabeth Mapp spends hours looking out of her window using opera glasses anda notebook to chart the neighbourhood affairs. Nothing escapes her. Miss Mappis a hilarious sharply observed satire that lovingly but pointedly pokes funat the feuds and foibles of English society in miniature. «