The New Countess: A Novel (Love & Inheritance Book 3)

The New Countess: A Novel (Love & Inheritance Book 3)

<p>England, 1905. Lord Robert and Lady Isobel Dilberne, as well as their entire regal estate, with its hundred rooms, are busy planning for a lavish visit from King Edward VII and his mistress just a few months away. Preparations are elaborate and exhaustive: the menus and fashions must be just so. But even amidst the excitement, not everyone is happy.</p><p>Lady Rosina--now widowed and wealthy-- insists on publishing a scandalous book despite her mother's objections. Arthur Dilberne and Chicago Heiress Minnie O'Brien's two young sons--the eldest of whom is heir to the estate--are being reared to Lady Isobel's tastes, not Minnie's. After making a shocking discovery, Minnie will take drastic measures for the sake of her children. And when fate deals a hand in the middle of the royal shooting party, the entire Dilberne estate will face upheaval once again. <br /><i>The New Countess</i> is the final novel in Fay Weldon's outstanding trilogy that began with <i>Habits of the House</i> and <i>Long Live the King</i>. As the bestselling novelist and award-winning writer for the pilot episode of the original <i>Upstairs Downstairs</i>, Weldon magnificently lifts the curtain on early twentieth-century British society, upstairs and downstairs, under one stately roof.</p>