Who is the queen of the archetypically English village of Tilling? Is it the widowed Lucia with her devoted courtier Georgie Pillson, with her command of Italian, her knowledge of the stock market and her ambitious snobbery? Or is it Mapp, the self-styled queen of Tilling, whose features are corrugated by chronic rage at the prospect of her upstart Lucia and her hanger-on? A deliciously entertaining, wickedly exciting war of garden parties, bridge evenings and staggeringly simple little dinners. Two of the most formidable ladies in English literature collide – elegantly, maliciously and amusingly. Let battle commence!