The year is
1901, King Edward VII is soon to have his official coronation, and the Dilberne
family is in a kerfuffle. Arthur Dilberne is good friend of the King and so
caught up in preparations for the coronation, as is his wife, Lady Isobel.
Their daughter in law Minnie is pregnant, ready to do her duty by providing an
heir, and daughter Rosina is still being a political agitator. Meanwhile,
sixteen year old, suddenly orphaned Adela, niece to Lord Dilberne, tired of
having her fate arranged by others, takes her life into her own hands and goes
on an adventure. And three invitations to the coronation have become an object
of much contention and confusion.
This trilogy
(which began with last years Habits of the House) is sort of like Seinfeld: the show about nothing. Very little seems
to take place, but everybody is practicing their own little schemes and things
that seem small take on great importance. Nobody is really a villain; nobody is
really a hero. They are just people- wealthy people, for the most part but not
all- being people at a time when great changes were taking place. But the books
are written so well that I can’t put them down, and I eagerly await the third
book.
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