Paying Guests - E F Benson

I was so pleased to receive this book as a present - I'm guessing it is now out of print, and I hadn't heard of it before. It is very much of Benson's Mapp & Lucia style - all about a group of slightly quirky and eccentric people thrown together and reacting to each others foibles in extremely funny ways. Benson's style is very gossipy, almost bitchy, but so accurate in his study of human beings in middle age, dealing with loneliness, trying to get through life, concentrating in a very selfish way about their own problems.