by Isabel Colegate · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788490662984
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In the autumn of 1913, Sir Randolph Nettleby and his wife organize a hunt for the cream of British aristocracy. Among the guests are a renowned hunter and his flirtatious wife, an attractive lawyer, a wealthy Jew, and a young Hungarian count. Meanwhile, the staff strives to satisfy the needs of the guests, from the estate's gamekeeper to the servants and an army of beaters. The frictions and affinities among the guests soon reveal hypocrisies, flirtations, debts, and marriages of convenience. The situation becomes complicated when an animal advocate plans to disrupt the hunt, and young Osbert, Sir Randolph's grandson, searches for his pet duck, fearing it will be shot by mistake. A tragic accident will reveal the fragility of that idyllic world about to disappear with the outbreak of World War I. This novel, written by Isabel Colegate, is a cult work about the twilight of the aristocracy in the Edwardian era, which inspired the British film of the same name.
Isabel Diana Colegate was a British author and literary agent.
