E. F. Benson

This fabulous comedy of manners is about the residents of Durham Square, which is a respectable if not totally fashionable London address. We see their snobberies, their quarrels and reconciliations, and we discover that one of the residents of the square has been writing hugely popular romantic trash under the name of Rudolph da Vinci. There's a memorable cast of strong-willed women, an eccentric Vicar, an admirable butler, and some Pekinese dogs.
This novel is laugh-out-loud funny! - Susannah Fullerton, The International Heyer Society