LONG LIVE THE KING
Book ID/图书代码： 02630512B52819
English Summary/英文概要： Mid-December 1901 – mid June 1902Book Two is rather darker. It’s the story of a run-away, sixteen-year-old, Adela, orphaned niece of Robert and Isobel, and how she is finally brought home to Dilberne Court, with its one hundred rooms, her virtue preserved, but only just. Home is rumoured be haunted, as were most historic houses of the time. The action takes place in the run-up to the Coronation of Edward VII, planned for June but cancelled at a day’s notice. The Dilberne fortune has been restored, thanks to Mr Baum, Minnie is married and pregnant, trying to come to terms with her new role as lady of the manor, and her charming but controlling mother-in-law Isobel. Both Robert and Isobel become caught up in preparations for the Coronation, he in tandem with Arthur Balfour, future Prime Minister and spiritualist, she with the beauty Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough, lady in waiting. But it’s Adela who most concerns us. While the Dilberne’s argue over her long term future – Minnie and Isobel want to take her in, Walter and Robert, for reasons of past history, don’t – Adela, a girl of no mean spirit, runs away and joins a travelling group of spiritualists, along with her former maid Ivy whom she meets at a séance held in Balfour’s house in Carlton Terrace. Ivy has the genuine powers of a medium, Adela has not. But Adela, to Ivy’s rage, is the one credited with saving the life of the King, who so nearly died of appendicitis – his illness the reason the coronation had to be cancelled. Robert relents and takes a reformed Adela back home, chastened, still a virgin, but in the company of a young working class conman she is, to the House’s consternation determined to marry. She does.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 這是“愛情和遺產三部曲”的第二部。繼續講述19世紀轉捩點，貴族家庭的生活和愛情故事。
1901年，倫敦整個社會都為愛德華二世的加冕禮而瘋狂。當德爾波家的財產由兒子的婚姻拯救之後，他們開始準備貝爾格雷福莊園的房子，沉浸在寶石和各種舞會中。正在這時，16歲的侄女阿黛拉參加了一個女巫合唱團。德爾波家想要避免所有的醜聞，而亞瑟子爵和他的新婚妻卻總是出岔子。（Celia）
Awards/获奖情况：如果你是作家，就該來見一下這位英雄；如果你是女人，就該來看看這位將要改變你人生觀的神仙婆婆。
小說家兼記者、編劇和劇作家Fay Weldon是文學界啟發性人物。自從出版了《Upstairs, Downstairs》，她的小說就成為古典小說的經典、成為英國劇院的傳奇，甚至跟隨她的小說將英國的茶和羊毛都送往美國。她的作品被評論成基於平淡背景下反叛又誘人的作品。
她最近的小說《Habits of the House》在英國文學界廣受好評。有人說這本書是《Upstairs Downstairs》的翻版，加入了所有醜聞和情感元素。也有人說她的書在《唐頓莊園》大熱的背景下，大受其益。但又有誰知道，“唐頓莊園”的原型就來源於Fay Weldon 基於愛德華時期的系列：THE LOVE AND INHERITANCE SERIES
——《Huffington Post》
“在《唐頓莊園》播出之前就有《Upstairs, Downstairs》而且寫出了這部熱播劇的先前幾集。現在Weldon就要回到現場，再次挖掘這個等級觀念極重的社會，描寫那些衣食無憂的老爺小姐和專門伺候人的僕人的生活。”
——《Booklist》
About the Author/作者介绍： Novelist, playwright and screenwriter Fay Weldon was brought up in New Zealand and returned to the United Kingdom when she was ten. Her first novel, The Fat Woman’s Joke, was published in 1967. She has written over thirty books. Fay was Chair of the Judges for the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1983, and received an honorary doctorate from the University of St Andrews in 1990. In 2001 she was awarded a CBE.
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