If you'd like a taster of Fanny [Craddock]'s novels, I recommend The Lormes of Castle Rising (1975), the first of her grand country-house saga, larded with lashings of below-stairs goings-on - all very Downton. And strangely, for a work of fiction, it has explanatory footnotes, in case you don't know your Rognons en Brochette from your Mousseline de Soie. It's as though Fanny, as a novelist, wasn't sure whether she wanted to be upstairs huntin', shootin' and eatin', or in the kitchen directing ops.
L. Graham, 'The Fanny factor', Slightly Foxed 64 (2019), 35
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