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There is nothing quite as beautiful as an English country house in summer. And there has never been a summer quite like that Indian summer between the two world wars, a period of gentle decline in which the sun set slowly on the British Empire and the shadows lengthened on the lawns of a thousand stately homes.
Real life in the country house during the 1920s and 1930s was not always so sunny. By turns opulent and ordinary, noble and vicious, its shadows were darker. In
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Publisher : Jonathan Cape; First Edition (2 Jun. 2016)
Language : English
Hardcover : 416 pages
ISBN-10 : 0224099450
ISBN-13 : 978-0224099455
Dimensions : 18.5 x 3 x 24 cm
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