Books set in Belgravia country
Books which transport you to places like Belgravia
Belgravia country is of course the setting and ambiance similar to that in which the novel Belgravia is set – the posh houses, manor homes with plenty of land and horses and carriages sweeping inhabitants up the gravel driveway. Perfect for Travel Tuesday or any day you fancy a stroll with a parasol to a house that harbours great art and interestingly complex characters. Ooh mustn’t dawdle, there’s the butler!
First of all: Belgravia by Julian Fellowes
Those houses! The grand drawing rooms! The gorgeous landscaped gardens. There’s a lot of drama in this novel and it makes you realise that money can not buy you everything. People with money and those without still create drama. Money drives the upper classes but so to does social status and appearance. However, appearances can be deceptive.
Lockwood Manor by Jane Healey
This is a manor house with servants and staff but which has been closed up during the war. Stuffed animals from a London museum are sent there for safe keeping and one museum worker goes with them. She finds out a lot about how a house like this works. She might wish she had stayed in London however as it soon appears as if the animals are not to be messed with…..
The House at Silvermoor by Tracy Rees
Wealthy and glamorous, the Sedgewicks of Silvermoor inhabit a world that is utterly forbidden to Tommy and Josie who come from the mining villages. This is a novel of two sides, the haves and the have nots and here, these worlds collide….
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
This is a house where the upstairs seem strange and the staff below stairs are worried and nervous. The house was a picture of sunshine and happiness back in the day. There were parties in the great gardens. But something has changed since then. Now a doctor has been called. He’s no stranger to this house however for he played here as a boy. There’s something strange here though…
The Somnabulist by Essie Fox
Taffeta and drama in this novel! Phoebe is 17 when she is offered the position of companion to a Nathaniel’s reclusive wife, a man who she has just met. She leaves her life in London’s East End for Dinwood Court in Herefordshire . It is possible that something seems to haunt this house. It certainly holds the darkness of truths..
Belgravia (c) Wikipedia
There there’s the classics of course set between the worlds of high-ups and their servants:
Death comes to Pemberley which is a sequel of sorts of what happened to Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett in Pride and Prejudice. Talking of which, the novels of Jane Austen should also be considered for a Belgravia country read.
For the ultimate book about those from upstairs and their servants, why not read Jane Eyre if you haven’t. Daphne’s Du Maurier ‘s My Cousin Rachel has a lot of taffeta to enjoy and strangers coming into families, and then there’s
Enjoy your reading!
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