Habits of the House
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A pitch-perfect story of life above and below stairs and an elegy to the last days of aristocracy and Empire.
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Deze historische saga duikt in de ingewikkelde sociale dynamiek en levens die voorafgingen aan het tijdperk van Downton Abbey. Volg de verweven lotsbestemmingen van personages uit verschillende lagen van de bevolking, van de aristocratie tot het huishoudelijk personeel, en ontdek hun dagelijkse worstelingen en triomfen. De auteur creëert meesterlijk een authentieke sfeer van die tijd, rijk aan menselijk drama en onvergetelijke persoonlijkheden.
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The second novel in Fay Weldon's Love and Inheritance trilogy, following the lives and loves of an aristocratic family at the turn of the nineteenth century.
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The third and final installment in Fay Weldon's Love & Inheritance trilogy sees the Dilbernes frantically preparing for a visit from the Royals 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.