House of Trelawney / Hannah Rothschild.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rothschild, Hannah, 1962- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Castles--England--Cornwall (County)--Fiction.

Castles.

Cornwall (England : County)--Fiction.

Cornwall (England : County).

England--Cornwall (County).

Genre:

Domestic fiction.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

370 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First American Edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.

Summary:

"For more than 700 years, the vast, rambling Trelawney Castle in Cornwall--turrets, follies, a room for every day of the year, four miles of corridors and 500,000 acres--was the magnificent and grand "three dimensional calling card" of the Earls of Trelawney. By 2008, it is in a complete state of ruin due to the dulled ambition and the financial ineptitude of the twenty-four earls, two world wars, the Wall Street crash, and inheritance taxes. Still: the heir to all of it, Kitto, his wife Jane, their three children, their dog, Kitto's ancient parents, and his aunt Tuffy Scott, an entomologist who studies fleas, all manage to live there and keep it going. Three women dominate the story: Jane; Kitto's sister, the spinster, Blaze, who left Trelawney and made a killing in finance in London, and the wildly beautiful, seductive, and long-ago banished Anastasia whose 19 year old daughter, Ayesha-- a complete replica of her mother--arrives unannounced at Trelawney. When Ayesha marries very well and buys the house to avenge her mother's memory, she makes Blaze's plan to save Trelawney completely unnecessary. But both Blaze and Jane are about to discover that the house itself is really only a very small part of what keeps the family together"-- Provided by publisher.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Green fund bookplate.

Other Format:

Online version: Rothschild, Hannah, The house of trelawney

ISBN:

9780525654919

0525654917

9781526600646

1526600641

9781526600608

1526600609

OCLC:

1100628440

Publisher Number:

99983898345