The Shooting Party

Isabel Colegate author Julian Fellowes editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:4th Jan '07

Should be back in stock very soon

The Shooting Party cover

'Threads of romance, social comment, country lore and intrigue both above and below stairs are cunningly worked together to create a brilliant tapestry' Sunday Telegraph

It is 1913 - a breath away from the Great War - and Edwardian England is about to vanish into history. An assorted group of men and women gather at Sir Randolph Nettleby's estate for a shooting party. Opulent, adulterous, moving assuredly through the rituals of eating and slaughter, they are an era's dazzlingly obtuse and brilliantly decorative finale.

A quiet, elegant meditation on class frustration and the transience of human concern, The Shooting Party is also the inspiration behind one of the great landmarks of popular culture - Downtown Abbey.

Threads of romance, social comment, country lore and intrigue both above and below stairs are cunningly worked together to create a brilliant tapestry... I have seldom enjoyed a book so much * Sunday Telegraph *
Colegate has found a perfect metaphor for the passing of a way of life * Spectator *
A modern classic * The Times *
A minor masterpiece * Daily Mail *

ISBN: 9780141188676

Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 16mm

Weight: 174g

224 pages