The new countess
By: Fay Weldon
Series: Love & inheritance -- 3; Love & inheritance -- 3.
Publisher: Head of Zeus
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9781781851630; 9781781851647; 9781781851661; 9781781851654
Subjects: Social life and customs; History; Upper class; Manners and customs; Household employees; Fiction
Description: 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.