The Other Side of Paradise
Author: Beaumont, Vanessa
ISBN: 9780861547777
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Year first published: 30 Jul 2024
Pages: 464 Format: Hardback
For fans of Downton Abbey, Gosford Park and After the Party.
Duty, scandal, and a mother's desperate attempt to protect her sons from a secret that will destroy them.
LONDON 1920 Jean Buckman, a young and innocent American heiress arrives in England to find a society decimated by war but resolutely clinging to the status quo. She marries Edward Warre an engaging but complex man and the owner of a once great but now struggling estate.
As the marriage falters, Jean spends her summers in the South of France where she embarks on a passionate affair that will have repercussions for the rest of her life.
Two sons arrive, the oldest, heir to the estate, is not the true bloodline. But Edward needs Jean's money to survive, and she needs her husband's silence.
The Other Side of Paradise is the heart-breaking story of a family ripped apart by the shackles of inheritance and the rules imposed upon them by a society that cannot face the truth.
ISBN: 9780861547777
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Year first published: 30 Jul 2024
Pages: 464 Format: Hardback
For fans of Downton Abbey, Gosford Park and After the Party.
Duty, scandal, and a mother's desperate attempt to protect her sons from a secret that will destroy them.
LONDON 1920 Jean Buckman, a young and innocent American heiress arrives in England to find a society decimated by war but resolutely clinging to the status quo. She marries Edward Warre an engaging but complex man and the owner of a once great but now struggling estate.
As the marriage falters, Jean spends her summers in the South of France where she embarks on a passionate affair that will have repercussions for the rest of her life.
Two sons arrive, the oldest, heir to the estate, is not the true bloodline. But Edward needs Jean's money to survive, and she needs her husband's silence.
The Other Side of Paradise is the heart-breaking story of a family ripped apart by the shackles of inheritance and the rules imposed upon them by a society that cannot face the truth.
