Habits of the House: 1 (Love and Inheritance) - Softcover

Weldon, Fay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908800437 ISBN 13: 9781908800435

Publisher: Head of Zeus, 2013

Synopsis

A love story, a happy end, a lively attack, haute-couture dresses and haute-cuisine meals: some quotable characters, some agreeable sex, some very witty lines - what else can you want from a novel? - unless perhaps a soupçon of Weldon perception and brains. Think fin de siècle and it's all here, in HABITS OF THE HOUSE. Isobel, Countess of Dilberne, is obliged to pair off her handsome, wilful son with a rich and pretty heiress from the Chicago stockyard. He's all the new internal combustion machines: she's all art. It's a clash of cultures and principles. Gold mines fail, bankers plot, bad girls flourish, London fog descends, Royalty intervenes, and your heart's in your mouth, hoping for the best for these unlikely lovers in the first in Weldon's Love and Inheritance trilogy.

About this title

Review:

'Hugely enjoyable' Tatler.

'A splendidly fun romp' The Times.

'Weldon at her most spellbinding' The Spectator.

About the Author:

Fay Weldon's credits include classic novels like The Life and Loves of a She Devil and Growing Rich, and the pilot episode of the original TV series Upstairs, Downstairs. In 2001 she was awarded a CBE for services to literature.

About this edition

• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1908800437
• ISBN 13: 9781908800435
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320