The Love-Story of Aliette Brunton by Gilbert Frankau

Description

The horse Miracle — by St. Peter out of Three-to-a-Flush, too good for a quiet hunt — comes out of his box pretty fresh on the first page of Gilbert Frankau’s novel, and that is an entirely accurate omen for the story. Aliette Brunton is married to a man of the governing world, and her life at Moor Park, the well-kept gardens, the flint walls, the stable courtyards, is everything a rich Edwardian wife might ask for — except the one thing the marriage does not supply. About that absence, the hunt-country novel proceeds with perfect, devastating discretion.

Frankau was a bestseller of the nineteen-twenties whose novels of society and marriage were admired as much for their craft as their scandal; here his subject is the anatomy of an Edwardian marriage, told through a horse, a garden wall, and the small courteous cruelties of a great house. The Love-Story of Aliette Brunton manages to be both a clear-eyed study and a genuinely moving romance, with an ending as gallant as its heroine.

Why readers still come back to it

• A sophisticated Edwardian marriage study beneath a romantic surface
• The horse-and-hound country done with real technical knowledge
• Frankau at the height of his powers — compassion without sentimentality

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