Crampton Hodnet

Formidable Miss Doggett, who hosts tea parties for young academics and upholds North Oxford's morals, becomes entangled in humorous and revealing situations involving her family and lodgers. Her great-niece, Anthea, is in love with a charismatic undergraduate, while her own lodger secretly proposes to her paid companion—leading to amusing and quintessentially English misunderstandings. Praised for being brilliant, hilarious, and very English, this novel offers a charming glimpse into social mores and family dynamics.