Excellent WomenCover design by Orla Kiely Mildred Lathbury is one of those excellent women who is often taken for granted. She is a godsend, capable of dealing with most of the stock situations of life birth, marriage, death, the successful jumble sales, the garden fete spoilt by bad weather. As such, though, she often gets herself embroiled in other peoples lives and especially those of her glamorous new neighbours, the Napiers, whose marriage seems to be on the