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Gone with the Windsors: A Wicked Comedy about the Romance of the Century
Laurie Graham
#UB9372
Paperback, 409 pages; 2007 (2006)
$14.95
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Well, it is very funny—and not very nice. Gone with the Windsors is Laurie Graham's novel based on Wallis Warfield Simpson's "invasion" into the 1930s British social scene, told via the diary of a fictional old school chum of "Wally's." The narrator, Maybell Brumby, is herself no social or intellectual heavyweight: a wealthy and frolicsome American widow, she refers to Harrods as Harold's (among other verbal faux pas), and exhibits all sorts of flighty, frivolous behavior. But her diary entries carefully record Wallis's very deliberate campaign to become the wife of the then Prince of Wales. Maybell lets Wallis borrow her furs, cars, and money to aid her in accomplishing her goals. While the Duke and Duchess of Windsor don't come off very well in all of this—but then I've never read anything particularly flattering about them—the reader can't help ending up a fan of Maybell's. And Laurie Graham does have tremendous fun with it all!
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