Isabel Colegate ist vor allem für ihren Bestseller und von der Kritik gefeierten Roman "The Shooting Party" bekannt, der für eine inzwischen klassische Verfilmung adaptiert wurde. Ihre Werke befassen sich oft mit dem Leben in England nach dem Krieg und zeichnen sich durch scharfsinnige Beobachtungen der menschlichen Psyche und sozialer Dynamiken aus. Colegate ist für ihre kultivierte Prosa und ihre Fähigkeit, komplexe Charaktere und deren vielschichtige Motivationen zu gestalten, berühmt.
Orlando King. Orlando at the Brazen Threshold. Agatha
This trilogy tells the story of Orlando King, his rise to ambiguous power during the moral confusion of the 1930s, his spectacular downfall and the troubled legacy he bequeathed to his divided family. As the 1950s draw to a close, his daughter Agatha accomplishes a painful resolution.
'Just the right mixture of doomed fun, melancholy and faintly lascivious despair' Observer'I am afraid I have something to tell you. It is that we are all about to be destroyed.'1914. The old standards are going. There is bitterness in politics, talk of civil war in Ireland.But all this means little to Cynthia Weston, attractive wife of cabinet member Aylmer Weston, and her nephew by marriage Philip. They are caught up in the charmed, perilous toils of a mutual passion that will destroy all they hold most dear – while the shadow of war lengthens and darkens, ready to swallow their world whole.A captivating portrait of a lost world, Statues in a Garden is a rediscovered masterpiece by one of the most important and neglected British female writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
It is 1913 - just prior to England's entry into World War I - and Edwardian England is about to vanish into history. A group of men and women gather at Sir Randolph Nettleby's estate for a shooting party. Opulent, adulterous, moving through the rituals of eating and slaughter, they are obtuse and decorative finale of an era.