The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House, 1918-1939 -- Adrian Tinniswood, Hardcover Paul Wexler From the tulip fields of

From the tulip fields of Netherlands to your garden flower patch

who is paying for her treachery with exile and illness

or will they succumb to their deepest desires

At the end of a dark prairie road

Constance gradually--and then all at once--comes to see that her husband's heart is elsewhere and that the growing intensity between the two men threatens the whole foundation of their lives

The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House, 1918-1939 -- Adrian Tinniswood, Hardcover Paul Wexler From the tulip fields ofFrom an acclaimed social and architectural historian, the tumultuous, scandalous, glitzy, and glamorous history of English country houses and high society during the interwar period As WWI drew to a close, change reverberated through the halls of England's country homes. As the sun set slowly on the British Empire, the shadows lengthened on the lawns of a thousand stately homes. In The Long Weekend, historian Adrian Tinniswood introduces us to the