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- ISBN 9781780229225
- Weight: 244g
- Dimensions: 199 x 128mm
- Publication Date: 25 Sep 2014
- Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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FROM THE CREATOR OF DOWNTON ABBEY and THE GILDED AGE
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'A modern classic that will fill any Downton-shaped hole' Daily Express
'A delicious thoroughbred delight' Stephen Fry
'A brilliantly malicious portrait of upper-class society and all those who long to be accepted by them' Jilly Cooper
Edith Lavery is a woman on the make.
The attractive only child of a middle-class accountant, she leaves behind her dull job in a Chelsea estate agents and manages to bag one of the most eligible bachelors of the day - Charles Broughton, heir to the Marquess of Uckfield.
But is life amongst the upper echelons of 'good' society all that it seems?
'Horribly compelling' The Times
'Provocative, titillating and seductive' Spectator
'Everything you would hope for from the writer of Gosford Park' Stephen Fry
Educated at Ampleforth and Magdalene College, Cambridge, Julian Fellowes is a multi-award-winning actor, writer, director and producer.
As creator, sole writer and executive producer of the hit television series DOWNTON ABBEY, Fellowes has won three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe. He received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for GOSFORD PARK (2002). His work was also honoured by the Writers Guild of America, the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics for Best Screenplay.
Other writing credits for film include Piccadilly Jim (2004), Vanity Fair (2004), Young Victoria (2009), The Tourist (2010), Romeo & Juliet (2013) and Downton Abbey (2019), the four-part drama Titanic (2012), the three-part drama Doctor Thorne (2016), both for ITV, and the television adaptation of his own novel, BELGRAVIA (2020). He also wrote and directed the award-winning films Separate Lies and From Time to Time. Fellowes wrote the books for the Tony-nominated stage production of Mary Poppins, which opened in 2004; and for Half a Sixpence and School of Rock: The Musical¸ which both opened in London's West End in November 2016.
Fellowes has authored three novels: the international bestsellers SNOBS (2005), PAST IMPERFECT (2008) and BELGRAVIA (2016), which was first published in serial form as a groundbreaking app.
Julian Fellowes became a life peer in 2011. He lives in Dorset and London with his wife, Emma.
