The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly
1904
In the rolling Irish countryside, a grand bishop's palace stands half-mad with neglect, its glory long faded, its name whispered with mockery: Bishop's Folly. When a wealthy London banker purchases the estate and drags his family there to escape the "hustle" of city life, the local gentry watches with keen interest. What drives a respectable family to bury themselves in such eccentric isolation? The Bramleighs arrive at Castello with ambitions and secrets, and the neighbors are determined to uncover both. Lever's Victorian comedy observes with sharp, affectionate wit the collisions between English money and Irish tradition, between social aspiration and genuine character. Lady Augusta's letters hint at family tensions simmering beneath polished surfaces. This is a novel about what happens when people try to reinvent themselves and the lengths neighbors will go to divine their reasons. The humor lands through specificity: the absurd pretensions, the delicate negotiations of status, the gossip that passes for social currency. It endures because Lever understands that vanity and affection often wear the same face, and his characters are too vivid and ridiculous to be anything but beloved.
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