Downtrodden Abbey: The Interminable Saga of an Insufferable Family

A parody of the beloved English Masterpiece TV series Downton Abbey that mocks the misfortunes of the upper class family and their lower class servants.

Welcome to Downtrodden Abbey, where a battle for the deed to the property is waged between legitimate aristocrats and literal pretenders to the throne.

The Crawfish family—Marry, Supple, Enid, Lady Flora, and Lord Roderick—are content wiling their days away with naughty charades and twenty-two course dinners until the sinking of the Gigantic takes down the next in line to inherit Downtrodden. Soon, cousin Isabich and her son, Atchew, the rightful heir to the Abbey, arrive to claim what's theirs. Downstairs, the servants are running amok, as crippled weakling Brace is aggressively courted by teen hottie Nana, and lady's maid “Potatoes” O'Grotten and her flamboyant sidekick, Tomaine, cause trouble at every turn.

This ensuing, insufferably overwrought melodrama takes the reader upstairs and downstairs, into parlors and drawing rooms, boudoirs and bathrooms, and across every class—from the classiest to the classless—in the social pecking order of Edwardian England.

Uproariously funny, with a wicked sense of humor that Downton Abbey diehards will enjoy, Gillian Fetlocks skewers your favorite characters with panache in this winning parody.

© 2025 Thomas Dunne Books (E-bog): 9781250031242

Release date

E-bog: 16. april 2025