A leisurely weekend among the British gentry reveals the cracks in their upper-class society in this “beautifully crafted” historical fiction novel set in pre-WWI England (Washington Post).“A lovely piece of writing, in which subtlety, irony, a...
Colegate's latest contribution to her sizable corpus of novels, of which the filmed The Shooting Party is the best known, is an extraordinarily accomplished excursus of subtle complexity into memory and the nature of truth, the search for meaning and...
As the city of Bath prepares for the arrival of Queen Victoria, the curate enters into a liaison with the wife of a prominent citizen; rumors of corruption surround the architectural competition for the design of a new hotel; and an imposter and a cl...
His wild years behind him, Alfred Ashby, a celebrated photographer now in his late fifties, has returned to where he was raised, the family farm in rural England. The old house in the valley, little changed by the years, provides him an agreeable dar...
'As a novelist of English manners, Isabel Colegate has no rival.' - The Times
'Colegate's prose is flowing and unpretentious. She tells an excellent tale.' - Daily Telegraph
'[Colegate's] strengths - neat psychological details, cool...