Swallowcliffe Hall Trilogy by Jennie Walters
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Overview: After working in publishing, Jennie Walters began to dream up her own stories over ten years ago. She was partly inspired to write the ‘Swallowcliffe Hall’ trilogy by visits to beautiful old English country houses, and partly by a silver housekeeper’s chatelaine she found when clearing out her late father-in-law’s flat. As a teenager, she spent a couple of years at a clifftop boarding school converted from a Victorian mansion, with a huge marble staircase and a collection of stuffed birds in glass cases. She now lives with her husband in London. Visit Jennie’s website for fascinating insights into English country houses and the servants and families who live in them, original photographs from Victorian times, biographical information and lots more!
Genre: Fiction » Romance
1. Polly’s story
For ‘Downton Abbey’ fans! Scandal, romance and intrigue in a grand old English country house: Swallowcliffe
Hall, home to the aristocratic Vye family and the staff who look after them. When Polly Perkins starts work at the Hall, she finds it hard to learn the manners and etiquette expected of her. Life at Swallowcliffe is a whirl of shooting parties, picnics and balls, and an army of servants is required to look after the guests.
Housemaids are meant to be seen and not heard, and nobody takes much notice of the quiet young girl who lights their fires and empties their slops. But Polly is sharp-eyed and quick-witted, and gradually she uncovers a secret lurking in the shadows of the Hall’s elegant rooms – a secret that will end up breaking her
heart. When a young American heiress arrives to stay at Swallowcliffe, Polly must decide whether the time
has come for her to reveal what she knows.
2. Grace’s Story
‘Downton Abbey’ from the servants’ point of view! Another fascinating chapter in the life of Swallowcliffe Hall, a grand old English country house. It’s 1914, and World War One is about to change the lives of the aristocratic Vye family and their servants for ever. The war brings tragedy in its wake but also new opportunities for Grace, Polly’s daughter and a reluctant kitchenmaid. As most of the young male servants leave Swallowcliffe to fight in France, trainloads of wounded soldiers
begin to arrive at the Hall in their place to convalesce. Grace begins to realize the terrible effect the war is having and worries desperately about her beloved brother Tom, away at the Front. Nobody is safe, not even Lord and Lady Vye, making their way back from America aboard the ill-fated liner Lusitania. And then Grace finds herself falling in love – with the wrong person. Can she ever escape from the servants’ hall, or is the old order as strong as ever?
3. Isabel’s Story
In the final part of the Swallowcliffe Hall trilogy, Isobel comes to the shell of this once-beautiful house with her gas mask in 1939, to stay with her grandmother Polly. Talk of war is on everyone’s lips and it’s an anxious time – especially for Andreas, a boy who has escaped from Germany on the Kindertransporte: the evacuation of thousands of Jewish children to safety in Britain. Can Izzie help his family find sanctuary at the Hall too?
She is determined to try, although the house has fallen on hard times and its very existence is threatened. In the process, she uncovers a family secret that has remained hidden for years, and discovers courage in the face of danger and prejudice she never knew she had.
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