A mini scandal is developing at a major stately home because the author of The Archivist of Duntisbourne Hall has been accused of using real people in the book and a number of ancient old tour guides have got uppity about it despite the fact that it's meant to be a satire. I can't possibly reveal my source but a large staff of several hundred people are falling over themselves to claim that (a) they have been represented in the book (b) that they haven't been represented in the book. Being a veteran stately home visitor myself I would have thought most people who take up guiding as a profession are perfectly at home with fiction.
