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From the bestselling author of The Long Weekend : a wild, sad and sometimes hilarious tour of the English country house after the Second World War, when Swinging London collided with aristocratic values. 'Preposterously entertaining' Observer '
'Enthralling' Lucy Worsley 'Wonderful' Judith Flanders 'A whirling, waltzing panorama through the last carefree age of British nobility New Statesman Adrian Tinniswood opens the doors on the excess, intrigue and absurdities of life in
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Venture behind closed doors to uncover the secrets of life in the English country house between the wars in all its splendour. During the 1920s and 1930s, as the sun set slowly on the British Empire, England's stately home
' Glamour, scholarship and superlative storytelling [...] an enthralling read. ' LUCY WORSLEY Adrian Tinniswood opens the doors on the excess, intrigue and absurdities of life in the late Victorian and Edwardian country house In the decades before
'Tinniswood has created a tome of architectural brilliance, uncomfortable historical truths, and a complicated legacy of power and philanthropy.' The Irish Times Step inside the historic homes of the Guinness family and enter a world of power, pr