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The Shooting Party

✍ Scribed by Isabel Colegate

Book ID: 110950274
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Weight: 301 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780141966304
ASIN: B003YL4AQM

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✦ Synopsis

'Threads of romance, social comment, country lore and intrigue both above and below stairs are cunningly worked together to create a brilliant tapestry' Sunday Telegraph
It is 1913 - a breath away from the Great War - and Edwardian England is about to vanish into history. An assorted group of men and women gather at Sir Randolph Nettleby's estate for a shooting party. Opulent, adulterous, moving assuredly through the rituals of eating and slaughter, they are an era's dazzlingly obtuse and brilliantly decorative finale.
A quiet, elegant meditation on class frustration and the transience of human concern, The Shooting Party is also the inspiration behind one of the great landmarks of popular culture - Downtown Abbey.

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