I've been reading this book, on and off, since I picked it up at a train station during a trip to Brighton in 2016. As a fan of Wodehouse and Beverly Nichols, I enjoyed hearing a humorous woman's take of the era. Writing about daily life, from the social responsibilities of country life to war work in beleaguered London, Delafield is clearly entrenched in the norms of her time, but enough apart to poke fun at them- and herself for participating in them. I was surprised that she showed so much self-doubt, and wondered if it was real or part of an assumed character. Either way, it helped me connect with her; somehow, the fact that someone who died decades before I was born has some of the same mental discussions that I do made her much more accessible. Her musings on war and mortality in the last segment, A Provincial Lady in Wartime, were a bit bittersweet, since she died in 1943 (though not as a war casualty.) If you like period pieces from The Long Weekend, British social history, and gentle humor, this is a fun series.