Adrian Tinniswood: The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House Between the Wars [2018] paperback Condition:New 'A remarkable writer' The Times

'A remarkable writer' The Times

But this year they will be interrupted by a visitor

with a tragic heart

Jessica Williams

with its huge beachfront windows and only a short walk to the glistening water

Adrian Tinniswood: The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House Between the Wars [2018] paperback Condition:New 'A remarkable writer' The Times'A masterpiece of social history' Daily Mail There is nothing quite as beautiful as an English country house in summer. And there has never been a summer quite like that Indian summer between the two world wars, a period of gentle decline in which the sun set slowly on the British Empire and the shadows lengthened on the lawns of a thousand stately homes. Real life in the country house during the 1920s and 1930s was not always so sunny. By turns