Albion: A Propulsive Tale of Family, Inheritance, and Colonial Legacies Set on a Rewilded English Country Estate - Uncorrected Proof

Hope, Anna

ISBN 10: 006342715X / ISBN 13: 9780063427150

Editore: Harper, New York, NY, 2025

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Condition: Near Fine.

Trade Paperback.

Uncorrected Proof.

Glossy illustrated wrappers are bright and clean with light handling wear and minor wear at the edges, corners, and spine ends. Spine is straight without a visible reading crease, binding appears tight and square, and the page block is clean with slight edge irregularity. Pages are clean and bright. Publisher's uncorrected proof with ?NOT FOR SALE? printed on the wrappers and prepublication promotional information on the rear cover. Preliminary text remains visibly unfinished, including ?[Dedication to come],? ?[Author's Note text to come],? and the $PrintCode placeholder on the copyright page. Listing photos show the exact copy included in this sale.

A contemporary English family saga examines generational wealth and class privilege through a dysfunctional wealthy family tied to a Sussex country estate. The novel draws on the tradition of English country-house fiction while bringing that form into the present through environmental conflict, conservation, and questions about the future of inherited land. Rewilding and ecological stewardship place the story within climate fiction and environmental fiction, while its treatment of old money, British class, and the legacy of empire broadens the family drama. The Sussex setting and strong sense of the English countryside also make the novel relevant to readers seeking contemporary British fiction rooted in a particular place.

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• Titolo: Albion: A Propulsive Tale of Family, Inheritance, and Colonial Legacies Set on a Rewilded English Country Estate - Uncorrected Proof
• Editore: Harper, New York, NY
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 006342715X
• ISBN 13: 9780063427150
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Edizione: prima edizione
• Condizione: ottimo
• Dimensioni: 6 L x 9 A x 0,8 P (pollici) 6 pollici di larghezza per 9 pollici di altezza per 0,8 pollici di profondità
• Peso: 0,75 libbre
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
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  • Literature
  • General Literature
  • British Literature
  • Proofs & ARCs

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Riassunto

“A superb deftly woven novel . . . Anna Hope engages, head-on, with some of the most urgent and challenging issues facing the world today, and transforms them into spellbinding family drama.”—Jonathan Coe, author of Mr. Wilder & Me

A finely crafted, propulsive, and nuanced story of family, inheritance, and accountability that shakes the country house novel to its foundations from the internationally acclaimed author of Expectation.

The Brookes are gathering in their eighteenth-century ancestral home—twenty bedrooms of carved Sussex sandstone—to bury their patriarch, Philip. Father, grandfather, husband, landowner, one-time hippy, long-time philanderer, Philip was the blinding sun around which the family has orbited their entire lives.

Eldest daughter Frannie, inheritor of a thousand acres of English countryside, mother to a daughter whose future she fears for, dreams of rewilding and returning the estate to nature: a last line of defense against the coming climate catastrophe. Her brother Milo envisages a treetop haven for the super-rich where, under the influence of psychedelic drugs, a new ruling class will be reborn to create a better world. Each believes their father has given them his blessing and are set on a collision course with the other.

Isa, Philip’s estranged youngest child, only hopes to reconnect with her childhood love who still lives on the estate, to discover if her feelings for him are creating the fault lines in her marriage. Grace, bruised and diminished after fifty years in a loveless marriage, is at a crossroads, wondering whether she may finally have the strength to choose between freedom and duty. And then there is Clara, who arrives from America, shrouded in secrets and bearing a truth that will fracture the dreams on which they’ve built their lives.

Beautifully layered and utterly compelling, Anna Hope’s multigenerational saga is a bold, brilliant, and deeply contemporary examination of family dynamics, colonial legacies, and class, set against the backdrop of the climate crisis.

Informazioni sull'autore

Anna Hope is the internationally prize-winning and bestselling author of Wake, The Ballroom, Expectation, and The White Rock. She studied at Oxford University and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and her novels have been translated into more than twenty languages. She lives in Sussex with her family.