Habits of the House (Love and Inheritance)

Weldon, Fay

ISBN 10: 1908800046 / ISBN 13: 9781908800046

Published by Head of Zeus, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Habits of the House (Love and Inheritance)
• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908800046
• ISBN 13: 9781908800046
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

A love story, a happy end, a lively attack, haute-couture dresses and haute-cuisine meals: some quotable characters, some agreeable sex, some very witty lines – what else can you want from a novel? – unless perhaps a soupçon of Weldon perception and brains. Think fin de siècle and it's all here, in HABITS OF THE HOUSE.

Isobel, Countess of Dilberne, is obliged to pair off her handsome, wilful son with a rich and pretty heiress from the Chicago stockyard. He's all the new internal combustion machines: she's all art. It's a clash of cultures and principles. Gold mines fail, bankers plot, bad girls flourish, London fog descends, Royalty intervenes, and your heart's in your mouth, hoping for the best for these unlikely lovers in the first in Weldon's Love and Inheritance trilogy.

About the Author

After hard times and odd jobs as a lone parent, Fay Weldon became one of the top advertising copywriters of her generation. She moved to TV drama (writing the pilot episode of the iconic series Upstairs Downstairs) then turned to novels – including the classic The Life and Loves of a She Devil and the Booker-shortlisted Praxis. Fay was made a CBE for services to literature and taught Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.