Habits of the House

✍ Scribed by Weldon, Fay

• Book ID: 107678836
• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1 MB
• Series: Love and Inheritance 1
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781908800046

✦ Synopsis

For fans of Downton Abbey comes a ravishing portrait of the late 19th Century family from one of Britain’s best-loved authors.

Fay Weldon's new novel takes us inside the lives of an aristocratic household in the last three months of the nineteenth century. It's a time of riot and confusion, social upheaval, war abroad and shortage of money. Tea gowns are still laced with diamonds; there are still nine courses at dinner, but bankruptcy looms for the Dilbernes.

Whilst the Earl, gambler and man about town, must seek a new post in government; his wife Lady Isobel's solution is to marry off their son Arthur to a wealthy heiress, and without delay. But how? It's the end of the season, and choices are few. There's Minnie O'Brien from Chigaco - rich enough, but daughter of a stockyard baron, and with a vulgar mother and dubious past. Hardly suitable...!

Fay Weldon tells this tale of restraint and desire, manners and morals with wit and sympathy - if no small measur...