Albion: A Propulsive Tale of Family, Inheritance, and Colonial Legacies Set on a Rewilded English Country Estate - Uncorrected Proof
Language: English
Published by Harper, New York, NY, 2025
- First Edition
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Shelf Control, Bainbridge Island, WA, U.S.A.Shelf Control
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Condition: Near Fine. Trade Paperback. Uncorrected Proof. Glossy illustrated wrappers are bright and clean with light handling wear and minor wear at the edges, corners, and spine ends. Spine is straight without a visible reading crease, binding appears tight and square, and the page block is clean with slight edge irregularity. Pages are clean and bright. Publisher's uncorrected proof with “NOT FOR SALE” printed on the wrappers and prepublication promotional information on the rear cover. Preliminary text remains visibly unfinished, including “[Dedication to come],” “[Author's Note text to come],” and the $PrintCode placeholder on the copyright page. Listing photos show the exact copy included in this sale. A contemporary English family saga examines generational wealth and class privilege through a dysfunctional wealthy family tied to a Sussex country estate. The novel draws on the tradition of English country-house fiction while bringing that form into the present through environmental conflict, conservation, and questions about the future of inherited land. Rewilding and ecological stewardship place the story within climate fiction and environmental fiction, while its treatment of old money, British class, and the legacy of empire broadens the family drama. The Sussex setting and strong sense of the English countryside also make the novel relevant to readers seeking contemporary British fiction rooted in a particular place.…
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- Title
- Albion: A Propulsive Tale of Family, Inheritance, and Colonial Legacies Set on a Rewilded English Country Estate - Uncorrected Proof
- Author
- Hope, Anna
- Publisher
- Harper, New York, NY
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 006342715X
- ISBN 13
- 9780063427150
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 0.75 pounds
- Dimensions
- 6 inches width by 9 inches height by 0.8 inches depth
- Seller catalogs
- British Literature, First Edition Books, General Literature, Literature, Proofs & ARCs
"Albion explores the complexities of family, trauma, nature, human nature, landscape and escape in language that is as provocative as it is tender."--Miranda Cowley Heller, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Paper Palace
A finely crafted, propulsive, and nuanced story of family, inheritance, and accountability that shakes the country house novel to its foundations from the internationally acclaimed author of Expectation.
The Brooke family are gathering in their eighteenth-century ancestral home--twenty bedrooms of carved Sussex sandstone--to bury Philip: husband, father, and the blinding sun around which they have orbited their entire lives.
Eldest daughter Frannie, inheritor of a thousand acres of English countryside, has dreams of rewilding and returning the estate to nature: a last line of defense against the coming climate catastrophe. Her brother Milo envisages a treetop haven for the super-rich where, under the influence of psychedelic drugs, a new ruling class will be reborn. Each believes their father has given them his blessing, setting them on a collision course with each other.
Isa, Philip's estranged youngest child, only hopes to reconnect with her childhood love who still lives on the estate, to discover whether it is her feelings for him that are creating the fault lines in her marriage.
And then there is Clara, who arrives in their midst from America, shrouded in secrets and bearing a truth that will fracture all the dreams on which they've built their lives.
Beautifully layered and utterly compelling, Anna Hope's multigenerational saga is a bold, brilliant, and deeply contemporary examination of family dynamics, colonial legacies, and class, set against the backdrop of the climate crisis.
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About the Author
Anna Hope is the internationally prize-winning and bestselling author of Wake, The Ballroom, Expectation, and The White Rock. She studied at Oxford University and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and her novels have been translated into more than twenty languages. She lives in Sussex with her family.
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