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In the award-winning novelist and writer of Upstairs Downstairs, the third book in an excellent trilogy about what life was really like for masters and servants before the world of Downton Abbey. Britain, 1903. Lord Robert and Lady Isobel Dilberne and the complete grand estate, using its hundred rooms, is active arranging a visit from Edward VII and Queen Alexandra only a few months a way. Preparations are complex and exhaustive: the selections and fashions must be just so, therefore must James, the new heir and boy of Arthur Dilberne and Chicago heiress, Minnie O'Brien. But there are problems. Little James is being reared to Lady Isobel's tastes, not Minnie's. And Mrs. O'Brien is going to from America and leading to trouble. On the other hand, the Dilbernes' niece, Adela is again and stirring up hysteria in the servants hall by claiming the home is cursed. The royal visit is imperiled, but so can be the Dilberne budget once again. His Lordship is under remarkable stress, and the pecking order will be upset as everything at Dilberne Court changes. The New Countess is the ultimate novel in Fay Weldon's fascinating trilogy that began with Habits of the House and Long Live the Ruler. The best-selling novelist and award-winning writer of the pilot bout of the initial Upstairs Downstairs lifts the curtain on British world, upstairs and downstairs, under one rooftop.
