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by Fay Weldon
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Availability:In StockContributor:Fay WeldonSeries:Habits of the House #3Publish date:2014-12-23Pages:352
Language:EnglishPublisher:St. Martin's GriffinISBN-13:9781250049339ISBN-10:1250049334UPC:9781250049339Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Literary, Family LifeSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SC9P9H5RJ7

England, 1905. Lord Robert and Lady Isobel Dilberne, as well as their entire regal estate, with its hundred rooms, are busy planning for a lavish visit from King Edward VII and his mistress just a few months away. Preparations are elaborate and exhaustive: the menus and fashions must be just so. But even amidst the excitement, not everyone is happy.

Lady Rosina--now widowed and wealthy-- insists on publishing a scandalous book despite her mother's objections. Arthur Dilberne and Chicago Heiress Minnie O'Brien's two young sons--the eldest of whom is heir to the estate--are being reared to Lady Isobel's tastes, not Minnie's. After making a shocking discovery, Minnie will take drastic measures for the sake of her children. And when fate deals a hand in the middle of the royal shooting party, the entire Dilberne estate will face upheaval once again.

The New Countess is the final novel in Fay Weldon's outstanding trilogy that began with Habits of the House and Long Live the King. As the bestselling novelist and award-winning writer for the pilot episode of the original Upstairs Downstairs, Weldon magnificently lifts the curtain on early twentieth-century British society, upstairs and downstairs, under one stately roof.
Language:EnglishPublisher:St. Martin's GriffinISBN-13:9781250049339ISBN-10:1250049334UPC:9781250049339Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Literary, Family LifeSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SC9P9H5RJ7
FAY WELDON is a novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who, at the age of 16, lived in a grand London townhouse as the daughter of the housekeeper. In addition to winning a Writers' Guild Award for the pilot of Upstairs Downstairs, she is a Commander of the British Empire whose books include Praxis, shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction; The Heart of the Country, winner of the Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize; Worst Fears, shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award; and Wicked Women, which won the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award. She lives in England
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

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