The New Countess (Love and Inheritance)

Weldon, Fay

ISBN 10: 1781851638 / ISBN 13: 9781781851630

Published by Head of Zeus, 2013

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Seller Inventory # E-9781781851630-6-2

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The New Countess (Love and Inheritance)
• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1781851638
• ISBN 13: 9781781851630
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very good

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Synopsis

The year is 1905 and King Edward VII has invited himself and his mistress to a shooting weekend with the Dilbernes. Now Isobel, the Countess, must turn a run-down mansion into a palace fit for a king. Just as well the family fortunes have been restored, but money can't solve everything... not even a kidnapping.

The servants refuse to condone the King's morals; Isobel's daughter, Lady Rosina – now widowed and wealthy – insists on publishing a scandalous book, and the mis-spent pasts of Viscount Arthur and his Irish-American wife Minnie rear up to blacken the family name. When fate deals a hand in the middle of the shooting party, Isobel must consider not only her leading position in Society, but her entire future.

Fay Weldon brings an aristocratic Edwardian household to fabulous, vibrant life in this gorgeously witty tale of manners and morals, commoners and countesses, from one of Britain's best loved authors.

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.