Charlotte weaves a wickedly funny web in stunning sequel

‘She made them laugh’, would make a good epitaph for Charlotte Bingham, with her follow up to last year’s fictionised memoir about her time, in the 50s, working for MI5, writes Sue Leonard.

I’ve always been aware of the writer, Charlotte Bingham. I remember my mother laughing out loud, reading Coronet Among the Weeds, Bingham’s send-up of her time as an English debutante, ‘doing’ the season.