In May 1898 a portrait of the Duchess of Wrexe hangs in a Bond Street gallery, and the little critic Felix Brun watches the people it affects. Chief among them is Rachel Beaminster, the Duchess’s granddaughter, who comes out into society under the old woman’s iron rule and must decide whether to break with the house, the family and the vanishing world they stand for.
An ambitious early Walpole novel about the passing of Victorian aristocratic power, for readers of Galsworthy and Henry James. Download the free EPUB.