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By Adrian Tinniswood

‘[A] beautifully readable and eternally interesting bookDelicious, sometimes fantastical, revealing in ways in which Downtown Abbey by no means was.’ Rachel Cooke, Observer

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There is not anything relatively as attractive as an English nation condo in summer time. And there hasn't ever been a summer season rather like that Indian summer time among the 2 international wars, a interval of mild decline within which the solar set slowly at the British Empire and the shadows lengthened at the lawns of one thousand stately houses.

Real existence within the kingdom condo in the course of the Twenties and Nineteen Thirties used to be no longer continually so sunny. by means of turns opulent and usual, noble and harsh, its shadows have been darker. In The lengthy Weekend, Adrian Tinniswood uncovers the reality a couple of global half-forgotten, draped in fantasy and hidden in the back of stiff higher lips and film-star smiles. Drawing on thousands of memoirs, on unpublished letters and diaries, at the eye-witness tales of belted earls and unsatisfied heiresses and bullying butlers, The lengthy Weekend provides a voice to the folks who inhabited this international. In a definitive social heritage which mixes anecdote and narrative with scholarship, it brings the stately houses of britain to lifestyles, giving readers an perception into the guilt and the gingerbread, and displaying how similar to the rustic condominium was once rigorously secure by means of its occupants above and less than stairs, and the way the truth used to be much more fascinating than the dream.

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‘[A] superbly readable and perpetually attention-grabbing booklet… scrumptious, sometimes fantastical, revealing in ways in which Downtown Abbey by no means used to be. ’ Rachel Cooke, ObserverA day-by-day Telegraph booklet of the YearThere is not anything rather as appealing as an English kingdom condominium in summer season. And there hasn't ever been a summer time rather like that Indian summer time among the 2 global wars, a interval of light decline within which the sunlight set slowly at the British Empire and the shadows lengthened at the lawns of 1000 stately houses.

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