Phone for the Fish Knives
by Daisy Waugh
Piatkus, £18.99, 304 pages
I haven’t read In the Crypt with a Candlestick, the prequel to Daisy Waugh’s new novel set in Tode Hall, so I felt as though I was joining a party halfway through – a party whose theme appears to be “Come as your favourite comic novelist”. There are dashes of PG Wodehouse, Jilly Cooper and, in its theme at least, the author’s grandfather Evelyn.
Tode Hall has been thrown into disarray by the arrival of a film company who are making a series that seems to be not a million miles away from Brideshead Revisited, which made Tode Hall famous in the first place.
