Peculiar Ground by Lucy Hughes-Hallett, January 9, 2018, Harper
Genre: historical fiction
... a great English country house novel, spanning three centuries, that explores surprisingly timely themes of immigration and exclusion.
Book beginning:
1663
It has been a grave disappointment to me to discover that his Lordship has no interest- really none whatever - in dendrology. I arrived here simultaneously with a pair of peafood and a bucket full of goldfish.It is galling that my employer takes more pleasure in the creatures than he does in my designs for his grounds. (from an uncorrected proof; final copy may differ)
