The Young Visiters or Mr Salteena’s Plan is a comic masterpiece that has delighted generations of readers since it was first published in 1919. A classic story of life and love in later Victorian England as seen from the nursery window, it was written in 1890 by nine-year-old Daisy Ashford. It all starts when Alfred Salteena, who is ‘not quite the right side of the blanket’, takes young Ethel Montacue to stay with his friend Bernard Clarke… Daisy Ashford has an exquisite eye for matchmaking and manners in English society, and her tale, with its hilarious observation and idiosyncratic spelling, is as irresistible today as it ever was. BBC1 adapted it in 2003 with Jim Broadbent as Mr Salteena.