These books look very British, to the point where every time I read a blurb, I hear a British person in my head. How British is the Parasol Protectorate and will those who don’t get British humor, understand the jokes and references?
They are quite British. My mum’s a Brit (it’s probably her voice you hear) and I attended graduate school in Nottingham, but I’m embarrassingly American. My publisher is pretty strict about making sure all terms and words are Americanized. I dug in my heels about a few of the names, but a passing familiarity with Regency romances or BBC costume dramas is more than sufficient to understand the humor. Like Monty Python I believe the series is filled with the kind of comedy that crosses cultural boundaries: farce, sarcasm, and indiscriminate irreverence.
