This is laugh out loud funny. Fothergill owned and ran the Spread Eagle Hotel from 1922 until it closed in 1931 and was a real life Basil Fawlty. Fools were not tolerated neither were whinging guests.
There is anecdote after anecdote of guests and dining parties that did not pass the Fothergill test as the "right type of people". needless to say they are all amusing and at times the author felt a small amount of guilt about his behaviour but he had standards and if you failed the test you were generally gone.
Fothergill was an interesting man in own right, he knew Oscar Wilde and the likes of Evelyn Waugh were guests.
This is a great bath book, you can dip in , have a laugh and put it away or just read it right through.
Not as funny as 'Three Men in a Boat" but not far behind.
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