The Long Weekend Life in the English Country House Between the Wars

Adrian Tinniswood Press Reviews

'Provides rich detail from all corners, uncovering plenty of angst, but also much optimism.' The Economist

'Fantastically readable and endlessly fascinating book... Delicious, occasionally fantastical, revealing in ways that Downtown Abbey never was. It is as if Tinniswood is at the biggest, wildest, most luxuriantly decadent party ever thrown, and he knows everyone.' -- Rachel Cooke Observer

'Tinniswood and his publishers should be congratulated for issuing this elegant, encyclopedic and entertaining history... We are in the company of a confident and skilled historian who understands the mores of his era and wears his learning lightly... This s a handsomely illustrated pick'n'mix of mansions, manors, castles and palaces... Tinniswood expands our Sunday evening viewing with the kind of detail you can't invent... Deserves to be on every costume drama producer's bookshelf.' -- Virginia Nicholson The Times

'He has produced a luscious, summery book, full of amiable anecdotes and photographs of striking interiors, celebrating headstrong optimists who defied the defeatism of the times. The Long Weekend resembles a well-kept hothouse festooned with fruit ripe for the plucking.' -- Richard Davenport-Hines Sunday Times