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ally1775 's review for:
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey
by Fiona Carnarvon
An enjoyable, but not rivetting read written by the current Countess of Carnarvon in the wake of the hugely successful television series Downton Abbey.
It is not clear to the reader what exactly the author is trying to show in her work and so it feels a little disjointed. Much of the focus is on Lady Almina, but only a part of her life and in particular her work creating hospitals during the Great War. There is very little about the day-to-day running of the castle (the 'real' Downton Abbey) and the staff are only really mentioned in the context of the parts they played in the War. Towards the end, we get two chapters about the fifth Earl of Carnarvon's discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
I think a good editor could have polished this and given it a much clearer focus.
It is not clear to the reader what exactly the author is trying to show in her work and so it feels a little disjointed. Much of the focus is on Lady Almina, but only a part of her life and in particular her work creating hospitals during the Great War. There is very little about the day-to-day running of the castle (the 'real' Downton Abbey) and the staff are only really mentioned in the context of the parts they played in the War. Towards the end, we get two chapters about the fifth Earl of Carnarvon's discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
I think a good editor could have polished this and given it a much clearer focus.