31 May, 2016
Author: Adrian Tinniswood
Genre: History
Category: New Books
In this engaging social history, Tinniswood reveals what life was really like in the English country house in the uncertain inter-war period. He draws expertly on hundreds of memoirs, letters and diaries to offer an insight into the reality behind the carefully constructed and maintained façade of glamour, wealth and confidence. At once scholarly, anecdotal and thoroughly entertaining, The Long Weekend captures the intricacies and insecurities of a tumultuous era in British history.