It is the autumn of 1913, and Sir Randolph Nettleby has assembled a
brilliant array of guests at his Oxfordshire estate for the biggest
shoot of the season. An army of servants and gamekeepers has
rehearsed the intricate age-old ritual of the house and hunt. The
gentlemen are falling into the prescribed mode of fellowship and
good-humored sporting rivalry. The fashionable ladies are
exchanging the latest gossip. Everything about this splendid
weekend would seem a perfect affirmation of the privileges and
certainties of Edwardian country life.
And yet, as Isabel Colegate so elegantly dramatizes, it is not. The
social and moral code of this set is under siege from within and
without. Competition beyond the bounds of sportsmanship, revulsion
at the slaughter of animals, anger at the inequities of class --
these and other forces are about to rise up and challenge the
social peace, a peace that can hold only a brief while longer.
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