The New Countess: A Novel

Name: The New Countess: A Novel
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Fay Weldon

dic 2013 · Love & Inheritance Libro 3 · Macmillan + ORM

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A noble British family faces scandal in a historical saga that's " Downton Abbey for smart, literate readers" (Erica Jong, New York Times –bestselling author).

England, 1905. Lord Robert and Lady Isobel Dilberne, as well as their entire regal estate, with its hundred rooms, are busy planning for a lavish visit from King Edward VII and his mistress just a few months away. Preparations are elaborate and exhaustive: the menus and fashions must be just so. But even amidst the excitement, not everyone is happy.

Lady Rosina—now widowed and wealthy—insists on publishing a scandalous book despite her mother's objections. Arthur Dilberne and Chicago Heiress Minnie O'Brien's two young sons—the eldest of whom is heir to the estate—are being reared to Lady Isobel's tastes, not Minnie's. After making a shocking discovery, Minnie will take drastic measures for the sake of her children. And when fate deals a hand in the middle of the royal shooting party, the entire Dilberne estate will face upheaval once again.

As the bestselling novelist and award-winning writer for the pilot episode of the original Upstairs Downstairs, Fay Weldon magnificently lifts the curtain on early twentieth-century British society, upstairs and downstairs, under one stately roof.

"[Weldon's] Edwardian trilogy, told with wit, wry observation, and fascinating period detail, is just as absorbing [as Downton Abbey ]." — The Christian Science Monitor

Fay Weldon's Love & Inheritance Trilogy

Habits of the House (#1)

Long Live the King (#2)

The New Countess (#3)

A noble British family faces scandal in a historical saga that's " Downton Abbey for smart, literate readers" (Erica Jong, New York Times –bestselling author). England, 1905. Lord Robert and Lady Isobel Dilberne, as well as their entire regal estate, with its hundred rooms, are busy planning for...

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FAY WELDON is a novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who, at the age of 16, lived in a grand London townhouse as the daughter of the housekeeper. In addition to winning a Writers' Guild Award for the pilot of Upstairs Downstairs, she is a Commander of the British Empire whose books include Praxis, shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction; The Heart of the Country, winner of the Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize; Worst Fears, shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award; and Wicked Women, which won the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award. She lives in England.

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