Troy Chimneys - Softcover

Kennedy, Margaret

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139 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099595516 ISBN 13: 9780099595519

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 2014

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A Victorian gentleman is forced by illness to entertain himself with the family archive, and he uncovers the Regency-era correspondence and diaries of one Miles Lufton, MP - apparently a black sheep of the family, connected with a scandal long buried. But through the pieced-together artefacts from the past, a fuller picture emerges of a man torn between two personalities - Miles, serious, studious and penniless, and 'Pronto', flirt, political mover and eternal 'extra man'. Miles longs to dispose of his disreputable alter ego, but that way lies calamity...

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Review:

"She combines imagination with delicate feeling, capturing the right atmosphere with a simple style that makes her story timeless" (Times Literary Supplement)

"Margaret Kennedy caught just the taste of the time, mixing a stolid domestic Englishness with 'Continental' bohemians" (Irish Times)

"She is not only a romantic but an anarchist, and she knows the ways of men and women very well indeed" (Anita Brookner)

"Kennedy was immensely popular in her heyday" (Washington Post)

Book Description:

A remarkable historical novel, set in Austen-era England, exploring issues of identity, love and class, from the author of The Constant Nymph

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