Wild Strawberries
by Angela Thirkell (Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, 1934); audiobook read by Hilary Neville (Isis, 2015)
Charitably, a deadpan satire on manor houses and the British upper crust. Despite the odd piece of drollery, however, a suspicion grows that Thirkell must rather have identified with her carefree, superficial characters, parody thereby giving way to endorsement and straightforward romance.