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The Shooting Party

by Isabel Colegate · 1980

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It is the autumn of 1913. Sir Randolph Nettleby has assembled a brilliant array of guests at his Oxfordshire estate for the biggest hunt of the season. It seems a perfect consummation of the pleasures of Edwardian England, but the moral and social code of this group is not so secure as it appears.

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historical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of thisliterary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of this
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womenwomenMore like thisLess of this
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Audience
adult
Length
medium · 208 pages

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