The Shooting Party

About this book

A group of men and women gather at Sir Randolph Nettleby's estate for a shooting party.

Opulent, adulterous, moving assuredly through the rituals of eating and slaughter, they are a dazzlingly obtuse and brilliantly decorative finale of an era.

'Threads of romance, social comment, country lore and intrigue both above and below stairs are cunningly worked together to create a brilliant tapestry . . . I have seldom enjoyed a book so much' — *Sunday Telegraph*

Subjects

  • accident victims
  • aristocracy (social class)
  • country homes
  • england, fiction
  • fiction
  • fiction, general
  • fiction, historical, general
  • fowling