E. M. Delafield

E.M. Delafield (1890-1943) was the pen name of Edmée Elizabeth Monica Dashwood, a British author who wrote novels, plays and journalism. She is best known for The Diary of a Provincial Lady, a comic masterpiece of English literature that has delighted readers since its first publication in 1930. The Diary of a Provincial Lady is a witty, self-deprecating and sharply observed fictional diary of a middle-class Englishwoman navigating the social expectations, domestic frustrations and small triumphs of life in a Devon village during the interwar years. The book is both a gentle satire of English middle-class life and a universally recognisable portrait of a woman trying to hold everything together with grace and good humour. Available as both a book and an audiobook, The Diary of a Provincial Lady offers timeless listening and reading — one of the funniest and most charming books in the English language, as fresh and delightful today as when it was written nearly a century ago.