The New Countess

ISBN-13: 9781250049339 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 352 str.

Fay Weldon

Opis

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."

O autorze

Fay Weldon, geb. 1931 in England, ist 'eine der unterhaltsamsten und provokantesten Gegenwartsautorinnen' (Sunday Telegraph). Ihr pointierter, lässiger Stil, der sich durch Empathie und Scharfblick auszeichnet, ist ihr Markenzeichen. Fay Weldon gilt als Expertin für weibliche Lebenslügen und Rollenspiele. Ihr Werk wurde vielfach prämiert und in dreiundzwanzig Sprachen übersetzt. Sie arbeitete als Werbetexterin und studierte Psychologie und Wirtschaftswissenschaften. Mit dreißig veröffentlichte sie ihr erstes Buch. Die Autorin ist Mitglied der Royal Society of Literature.