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...
Never before available in the United States, this rediscovered masterpiece from Isabel Colegate, author of The Shooting Party, offers readers "just the right mixture of doomed fun, melancholy and faintly lascivious despair" (The O...
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...
A fierce, funny, unsentimental book about growing older, about grace and forgiveness, and about hope for a world we must too soon leave behind.His wild years behind him, Alfred Ashby, a celebrated photographer now in his late fifties, has returned to...
'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...