The New Countess by Fay Weldon

352 pages first pub 2013 (view editions)

fiction historical funny lighthearted fast-paced
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A reader who delights in brisk, witty upstairs-downstairs social satire that skewers class rituals while letting sharply drawn women clash over family, fortune, and the future will find this book irresistible.

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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 ex...

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