Anglo Saxon Attitudes

I'm amazed to see people talking of this as if it's some great work of fiction. Nearly every single character is just a shallow stereotype; and usually the worst kind. Hysterical women, thieving Irish lout, and on and on.

The whole thing hangs on an historical fraud suspected by a man whose conscience pricks him in later life, but is mainly a multitude of people with hardly any redeeming qualities.

The only positive I can say is that it manages to be extremely funny it's so bad. Foreign accents included.

I didn't care about the story, such as there was one. It was like what you'd get if you trapped someone from childhood in a windowless room, with only Barbara Cartland novels and the Daily Mail from the early 20th century to read, and then they too started writing novels.