The New Countess (Love and Inheritance) By Fay Weldon. 9781781851654

NEW Books from family run Booksellers. Our hand selected titles are in stock and ready for posting in protective packaging.\nThe third and final installment in Fay Weldon\u2019s Love & Inheritance trilogy sees the Dilbernes frantically preparing for a visit from the Royals\n\nThe year is 1905 and King Edward VII has invited himself and his mistress to a shooting weekend with the Dilbernes. Now Isobel, the Countess, must turn a run-down mansion into a palace fit for a king. Just as well the family fortunes have been restored, but money can't solve everything\u2014not even a kidnapping. The servants refuse to condone the King's morals; Isobel's daughter, Lady Rosina\u2014now widowed and wealthy\u2014insists on publishing a scandalous book, and the mis-spent pasts of Viscount Arthur and his Irish-American wife Minnie rear up to blacken the family name. When fate deals a hand in the middle of the shooting party, Isobel must consider not only her leading position in Society, but .