BW46: Flufferton Abbey

In the Garden - George Goodwin Kilburne

I think we are all in the mood for something flufferton.  This post is brought to you by AggieAmy, one of our 52 Books Well Trained Mind Book a weekers, who kindly offered to guest post this week.

Flufferton Abbey is not a genre so much as a writing style.  A few genres lend themselves well to being Fluffeton books such as cozy mysteries, comedy of manners, romance, and historical fiction.  Everyone has their own specific thing they look for when they pick up a book and plan to spend time at Flufferton Abbey but there are a number of things that are expected:

• A happy ending – If you are crying at the end of the book it does NOT qualify.  A Flufferton book has the couple getting together, the mystery solved, the situation put right tidily.  If anyone has died during the course of the book they had better have deserved it.
• Setting – A lot of the charm in these books is being able to sneak away to someplace wonderful for a visit.  It’s easy to imagine that the cuppa tea we’re having isn’t really in our living room but the morning room of our manor house.  Gritty?  Realistic?  Downtown Detroit in the 1960’s?  Nope.  Not Flufferton appropriate. 
• Characters – We love these characters.  They have charm.  They make us smile.  We wish we knew them in real life.   
• Humor – A mandatory ingredient.  Some books have us laughing out loud in ways that make our family worry about our mental stability.  Some books have just an occasional chuckle.  All books have at least some. 
• Re-readability - Absolutely.  These are the books that we've read so many times that there are sections we've memorized. 

Where to start:

Georgette Heyer

                The Grand Sophy, Frederica, Venetia, Sylvester, Cotillion  

Jane Austen

                Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion

DE Stevenson

                Miss Buncle’s Book, Mrs. Tim Christie, Katherine Wentworth

PG Wodehouse

                My Man Jeeves, Something Fresh

LM Montgomery

                Anne of Green Gables, The Blue Castle

Angela Thirkell

                High Rising

Stella Riley

                The Parfit Knight

Susan Branch – a nonfiction present day version of Flufferton Abbey

                A Fine Romance:  Falling in Love with the English Countryside

Which ones have you read?  What authors would you add to this list?

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