Habits of the House, Paperback/Fay Weldon - St. Martin\'s Griffin

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From the award-winning novelist and writer of Upstairs Downstairs, the launch of a brilliant new trilogy about what life was really like for masters and servants before the world of Downton Abbey As the Season of 1899 comes to an end, the world is poised on the brink of profound, irrevocable change.
She lives in England..
In addition to winning a Writers\' Guild Award for the pilot of Upstairs Downstairs, she is a Commander of the British Empire whose books include Praxis , shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction
The Heart of the Country, winner of the Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize
Worst Fears, shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award; and Wicked Women, which won the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award.
About the Author: FAY Weldon is a novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who, at the age of 16, lived in a grand London townHouse as the daughter of the housekeeper.
With wit and sympathy--and no small measure of mischief-- Habits of the House plots the interplay of restraint and desire, manners and morals, reason and instinct.
As the writer of the pilot episode of the original Upstairs, Downstairs --Fay Weldon brings a deserved reputation for magnificent storytelling.
The arrival on the London scene of Minnie, a beautiful Chicago heiress with a reputation to mend, seems the answer to all their prayers.
Lord Robert can see no financial relief to an already mortgaged estate, and, though the Season is over, his thoughts turn to securing a suitable wife (and dowry) for his son.
The ripple effects spread to everyone in the household: Lord Robert, who has gambled unwisely on the stock market and seeks a place in the Cabinet; his unmarried children, Arthur, who keeps a courtesan, and Rosina, who keeps a parrot in her bedroom
Lord Robert\'s wife Isobel, who orders the affairs of the household in Belgrave Square; and Grace, the lady\'s maid who orders the life of her mistress.
The Earl of Dilberne is facing serious financial concerns.
From the award-winning novelist and writer of Upstairs Downstairs, the launch of a brilliant new trilogy about what life was really like for masters and servants before the world of Downton Abbey As the Season of 1899 comes to an end, the world is poised on the brink of profound, irrevocable change