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The New Countess

by Fay Weldon
language: english
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC, November of 2013 ‧
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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.

The New Countess

by Fay Weldon

Property Description
ISBN: 9781781851630
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
Release Date: November of 2013
Language: English
Dimensions: 133 x 208 x 22 mm
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Format: Book
Collection: Love And Inheritance
Categories: Books in English > Fiction > Fiction
EAN: 9781781851630

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Fay Weldon

Fay Weldon é uma das mais estimadas e respeitadas autoras britânicas. Nasceu em 1931 e passou parte da infância na Nova Zelândia, tendo regressado a Inglaterra aos dez anos. Estudou Economia e Psicologia na Universidade de St Andrews, na Escócia, e trabalhou durante um breve período no Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros, em Londres. Mais tarde, dedicou-se à escrita a tempo inteiro, como romancista, dramaturga e argumentista. Foi presidente do júri do Booker Prize em 1983 e doutora honoris causa pela Universidade de St Andrews em 1990. Foi finalista do Booker Prize em 1979, com Praxis, e venceu o PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award em 1996, com Wicked Women. Em 2001, foi distinguida com o título de Commander of the British Empire. Vive no Dorset, em Inglaterra, com o marido, o poeta Nick Fox.

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