I'm not really sure if I liked this or understood it. It was quite odd in ways that I didn't really get.

Irene is on a savanger hunt with her fellow Bright Young Society Things; one of the items on her list is a "Lost Man," of the sort who live in boxes under bridges in the Depression era. Irene decides to take her acquisition, Godfrey, home with her to install him as her family's butler. The rest is a domestic comedy as Godfrey -- who unbeknownst to anyone was once as rich as they are -- expertly wrangles their rowdy homelife and fends off the advances of Irene, who's fallen madly in love with him. Funny, ironic, wry -- I love this book. If my elderly paperback weren't in such fragile shape, I'd read it more often. (I realize there's was film version, but I've never seen it.) ( )