This introduces you to the Crawley family and their household. You discover some of Mr Bates’s mysterious past, Lady Sybil helping housemaid Gwen to better herself and the start of her own relationship with Tom Branson, the sagas of Lady Mary and Parmuk, Lady Mary and Matthew, Lady Mary and Evelyn Napier, Lady Mary v Lady Edith and looking g at how far evil ladys maid Miss O’Brian go to try get her own way.
8/10