The House of Hospitalities

Shy, dreamy Jenny had imagined the world of the Lovescombes would be gorgeous and exquisite, like a rare Chinese bowl... Emma Tennant's beautifully observed novel focuses on one weekend in 1953, when fourteen-year-old Jenny leaves a drab London summer to stay at the Lovescombes' country house near Salisbury. The rich are different, of course - her staunchly socialist Aunt Babs had hinted as much. But nothing could have quite prepared Jenny for this first bewildering encounter with the charmed and fatally charming lives of the English aristocrasy


Genre: General Fiction