Book Synopsis: A rich three-generational story of the Taverner family and their magnificent manor house known as Buscombe. The family has given it sons to war and later to commerce but a the center is the land, the timeless way of life. It seems that it will surely last forever.
In 1870, a new generation is about to begin. Tom Taverner, dedicated, impulsive and his sister Catherine, intelligent, elegant, frustrated by the limited opportunities open to women in a man's world. Tom marries. The estate is threatened by deteriorating farm prices and suddenly it seems that everything which was so secure can no longer hold.
This powerful novel traces the lives of the three generations of the Traverner family. The canvas stretches in time from the 1870s to the outbreak of the Second World War, in distance from England to East Africa, but at the center is always Buscombe and all it stands for, the house which forms and sometimes destroys those who live there.
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