The new countess
By: Fay Weldon
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Love & inheritance trilogy -- bk. 3; Thorndike Press large print historical fiction; Love & inheritance; Thorndike Press large print historical fiction
Publisher: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Waterville, Maine
Language: eng
Number of pages: 447
ISBN-13: 9781410468543; 9780750540384
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Upper class; Fiction; Household employees; Social life and customs; History; Manners and customs
Description: England, 1903. Lord Robert and Lady Isobel Dilberne and the entire grand estate, with its hundred rooms, are busy planning for a visit from Edward VII and Queen Alexandra just a few months away. Preparations are elaborate and exhaustive: the menus and fashions must be just so, and so must James, the new heir and son of Arthur Dilberne and Chicago heiress, Minnie O'Brien. But there are problems. Little James is being reared to Lady Isobel's tastes, not Minnie's. And Mrs. O'Brien is visiting from America and causing trouble. Meanwhile, the Dilbernes' niece, Adela, is back and stirring up hysteria in the servants' hall by claiming the house is cursed. The royal visit is imperiled, but so are the Dilberne finances once more. His Lordship is under tremendous stress, and the pecking order will soon be upset as everything at Dilberne Court changes.