Gingerbread Mansion - Softcover

Brown, Lizbie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847511376 ISBN 13: 9781847511379

Publisher: Severn House, 2010

Life in an English Stately Home - For the Jago family, the ending of the Second World War comes with a heavy price: the death of their son, Kit. But life must go on for the destitute aristocrats and, in an act of desperation, Virginia Jago calls in Charles Ryland of the National Trust to renovate their crumbling ancestral home. But Charles faces opposition from every angle, as he represents a modern world at odds with life before the war.

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About the Author:

Lizbie Brown is the successful author of the Elizabeth Blair series of mysteries, set in Bath, England. She was born in Cornwall, but now lives in the South Mendips, near Bath where she taught for many years before turning to writing full-time.

From Publishers Weekly:

Clich�d situations more typical of a stock romance novel mar Brown's historical set in post-WWII England. Charles Garland, of the newly formed National Trust, which is created to take over the operations of country houses whose owners can no longer afford their maintenance, travels from London to the Jago family's Devon home, Lizzah, to persuade the Jagos to put the property in the trust's hands. Kit, the son who was to inherit Lizzah, was killed in action at war's end, and his father, Myles, is in denial about the state of the family's finances. Romances, an unexpected pregnancy and domestic violence complicate Charles's efforts. Brown (Cat's Cradle) fails to make the reader feel the very real emotional impact of the social changes of the period on her characters' lives. Uninspired dialogue doesn't help (The whole country's at a tipping point. So many of the old ways gone. So many unknowns waiting in the offing...). (Sept.)
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