House of Trelawney
"For more than 700 years, the vast, rambling Trelawney Castle in Cornwall--turrets, follies, a room for every day of the year, four miles of corridors and 500,000 acres--was the magnificent and grand "three dimensional calling card" of the Earls of Trelawney. By 2008, it is in a compl...
| Main Author: | Rothschild, Hannah, 1962- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2020.
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
| Series: |
House of Trelawney ;
book 1 |
| Subjects: |
| Summary: |
"For more than 700 years, the vast, rambling Trelawney Castle in Cornwall--turrets, follies, a room for every day of the year, four miles of corridors and 500,000 acres--was the magnificent and grand "three dimensional calling card" of the Earls of Trelawney. By 2008, it is in a complete state of ruin due to the dulled ambition and the financial ineptitude of the twenty-four earls, two world wars, the Wall Street crash, and inheritance taxes. Still: the heir to all of it, Kitto, his wife Jane, their three children, their dog, Kitto's ancient parents, and his aunt Tuffy Scott, an entomologist who studies fleas, all manage to live there and keep it going. Three women dominate the story: Jane; Kitto's sister, the spinster, Blaze, who left Trelawney and made a killing in finance in London, and the wildly beautiful, seductive, and long-ago banished Anastasia whose 19 year old daughter, Ayesha-- a complete replica of her mother--arrives unannounced at Trelawney. When Ayesha marries very well and buys the house to avenge her mother's memory, she makes Blaze's plan to save Trelawney completely unnecessary. But both Blaze and Jane are about to discover that the house itself is really only a very small part of what keeps the family together"-- |
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| Item Description: |
"This is a Borzoi Book." |
| Physical Description: |
370 pages ; 25 cm |
| ISBN: |
9780525654919 0525654917 |
| Author Notes: |
She is a Philanthropist and serves as a trustee of the National Gallery in London, liaison trustee for the Tate Gallery, first woman to chair the National Gallery's board, and also a trustee of The Rothschild Foundation. She is also a co-founder of the charity Artists on Film. Her debut novel is The Improbability of Love. (Bowker Author Biography) |