title: The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House, 1918-1939
author:  Adrian Tinniswood 
description: "[Tinniswood] reveals the English country house as a vibrant enterprise, benefitting from new owners, money, and architects bringing contemporary ideas to the art of country living. Informative and entertaining, Tinniswood's meticulous research brings us familiar names, such as the Astors and Edward VIII, while introducing us to lesser-known homeowners who wished to create their own modernist vision."<b><i><b><i>Library Journal</i></b></i></b><br /><br />"Tinniswood elegantly explores the glamorous interwar age of English rural getaways, revealing the not-so-secret affairs of the inhabitants and the reinterpretation of architectural and interior design.... Tinniswood's lovely chronological ode to a past lifestyle brims with tales of the elite's tumultuous weekends and shows how the country house's purpose changed with the times as the old social order came to a close."<b><i></i></b>
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  # The Brigandshaw Chronicles
  
  
  ### Books Four to Six
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Peter Rimmer
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  ### Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [TO THE MANOR BORN](part0002.html#1T140-7edcaf7fcb22480b9b9450f77c3ab74f)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  1\. [June 1923 – Out of the Clear Blue
  Sky](part0003.html#2RHM0-7edcaf7fcb22480b9b9450f77c3ab74f)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  2\. [September 1923 –
  London](part0004.html#3Q280-7edcaf7fcb22480b9b9450f77c3ab74f)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  3\. [June 1924 – Clara’s Supper
  Club](part0005.html#4OIQ0-7edcaf7fcb22480b9b9450f77c3ab74f)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  4\. [January 1925 – Dinner at Berkeley
  Square](part0006.html#5N3C0-7edcaf7fcb22480b9b9450f77c3ab74f)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  5\. [March 1925 – The
  Cuckold](part0007.html#6LJU0-7edcaf7fcb22480b9b9450f77c3ab74f)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  6\. [December 1925 – Love in the
  Cold](part0008.html#7K4G0-7edcaf7fcb22480b9b9450f77c3ab74f)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  7\. [June 1926 – Love, or Something Like
  It](