Books in brief: The Long Weekend

 

 

    The Observer reviewer of Adrian Tinniswood's The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House between the Wars found it "fantastically readable and endlessly fascinating", and so did I.

    If you've read Mitford letters and biographies or the works of Anne de Courcy*, say, you'll be familiar with the general milieu described, but this book looks behind the façades - in all senses of the term - and shows you the full picture. I recommend it wholeheartedly.

*See also

Comments

[Margaret Powling]

I loved this book, my only complaint that is physically a heavy book, so a bit of a weight when trying to read it in bed. Yes, I know ... "get a Kindle!" But I do not want a Kindle, i like to read a book, so I put up with heavy books.
Margaret P

[Cornflower]

The quality paper and lots of photographs do make it a heavy one, but I agree that the Kindle experience would not be the same!