When Baron Otto Von Ottringe, a pompous Prussian, and his wife, Edelgard, begin a camping holiday in Southern England, he is unprepared for the English culture and the changes it causes in his wife's behavior
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A greatly admired literary figure of her time, Elizabeth von Arnim was born in 1866 and brought up in England. She spent later years in Switzerland, the French Riviera and America, where she died in 1941.
'One of the cleverest and most amusing stories of the year' Punch, 1939, on first publication *'Elizabeth excelled at creating horribly hilarious male characters, and the bone-headed Baron is one of her very best ... The vital ingredient in all her work is fun, and here she is at her most sprightly and irreverent ... The overall effect is as exhilarating as a stiff sea breeze' Kate Saunders
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