angelica_jardinerica 's review for:

Diplomatic Baggage by Brigid Keenan

3.0

---

Has some very interesting and hilarious stories, but her unmistakable upper-class background (her father was brigadier-general in the Indian army) and the fact that she's constantly trying to make out that she's just an "ordinary" person, gets quite annoying, as does the repeated name-dropping. Whilst she seems intent on convincing the reader of the contrary, she comes across as having spent most of her time abroad either organising, (with the help of cook, housemaid and butler) or attending, dinner parties, so it is difficult to feel any sympathy for the "hardships" she claims to have lived through.