A Question of Upbringing - Anthony Powell

Anthony "so posh you say it Pole" Powell; I've always been meaning to read some and I've finally got around to it. His prose is gorgeous and the funny-but-serious tone is very similar to Evelyn Waugh. He's not particularly fashionable these days, I suppose because he writes about a world of minor aristocracy and boarding schools. I loved it, though, and the best bit is that it's the first of a 12 book sequence called "A Dance to the Music of Time".