Snobs - Softcover

Preparing to marry heir Charles Broughton, attractive accountant's daughter Edith Lavery makes humorous and astute observations about contemporary England's class system. A first novel by the screenplay writer of Gosford Park. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.

Julian Fellowes is a writer, actor, and film director who was educated at Ampleforth College, Cambridge University, and the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. As an actor, his roles include Lord Kilwillie in the BBC Television series "Monarch of Glen" and the 2nd Duke of Richmond in "Aristocrats", as well as appearances in the films "Shadowlands", "Damage", and "Tomorrow Never Dies".

His debut as a screenwriter was "Gosford Park", directed by Robert Altman in 2001, which won awards for the best original screenplay from the New York Film Critics Circle, the National Society of Film Critics, the Writers Guild of America, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Since then he has written the screenplay for "Vanity Fair", starring Reese Witherspoon, and made his debut as a director with "Separate Lives". He has also written the book for a Cameron Mackintosh stage musical of "Mary Poppins". He and his wife, Emma, have a son, Peregrine, and a dachshund, Fudge.