The Long WeekendTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Venture behind closed doors to uncover the secrets of life in the English country house between the wars in all its splendour. During the 1920s and 1930s, as the sun set slowly on the British Empire, England's stately homes concealed worlds both opulent and ordinary, noble and viscious. This was a life draped in myth, hidden behind stiff upper lips and film star smiles. Drawing on hundreds of memoirs, on unpublished letters

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