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008			180828s20182018nyu 000 1 eng d
020			_a9780062684196
050	0	0	_aPR6108.U3945 _bP43 2018
082	1		_aFIC HUG _2
100	1		_aHughes-Hallett, Lucy
245	1	0	_aPeculiar ground : _ba novel _c/ Lucy Hughes-Hallett
250			_aFirst U.S. edition.
260			_aNew York _b: HarperCollins Publishers _c, 2018
300			_a446 p. _c; 24 cm
520			_aIt is the seventeenth century and a wall is being raised around Wychwood, transforming the great house and its park into a private realm of ornamental lakes, grandiose gardens, and majestic avenues designed by Mr. Norris, a visionary landscaper. In this enclosed world everyone has something to hide after decades of civil war. Dissenters shelter in the woods, lovers rendezvous in secret enclaves, and outsiders - migrants fleeing the plague - find no mercy. Three centuries later, far away in Berlin, another wall is raised, while at Wychwood, an erotic entanglement over one sticky, languorous weekend in 1961 is overshadowed by news of historic change. Young Nell, whose father manages the estate, grows up amid dramatic upheavals as the great house is invaded: a pop festival by the lake, a television crew in the dining room, a Great Storm brewing. In 1989, as the Cold War peters out, a threat from a different kind of conflict reaches Wychwood's walls. Lucy Hughes-Hallett conjures an intricately structured story that explores the lives of game keepers and witches, agitators and aristocrats; the exuberance of young love and the pathos of aging; and the way those who try to wall others out risk finding themselves walled in.
546			_aEnglish.
650		4	_aManors _z-England _x-Fiction
650		4	_aCountry homes _v--Fiction
651		4	_aGreat Britain _x-History _v--Fiction
651		4	_aEngland _v--Fiction
655		4	_aHistorical fiction
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