About This Book
A wry social comedy that charts the return of a prodigal landowner with a foreign wife to a provincial shire, whose unconventional manners provoke local scandal and factional quarrels; village politics, hunt culture, and social hypocrisy collide as gossip and petty rivalries escalate into diplomatic complications and sensational events, including an eventual assassination involving a foreign monarch; the narrative interleaves satirical portraits of country society with episodes of intrigue, legal proceedings, and farcical misunderstandings.
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