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The Summer of The Royal Visit
The Summer of The Royal Visit
Author: Isabel Colegate
Towards the end of Queen Victoria's reign, tension and excitement grow as a City prepares to welcome its monarch. But as the faint heat of summer intensifies, passions are ignited by an architectural competition to design a new hotel, and the harmonious facade of middle-class life suddenly begins to crumble, revealing dark and disturbing rivalri...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780140143065
ISBN-10: 0140143068
Publication Date: 1992
Pages: 219
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Publisher: Penguin Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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skeetergirl avatar reviewed The Summer of The Royal Visit on + 9 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
I found this book rather dry. The author has won some awards and the reviews from the UK were quite effusive. It may be more my fault than the book's fault. From the blurb, I was expecting some similar to E.F. Benson, Angela Thirkell or even Barbara Pym writing about the impact of the Queen's visit on a small village. It was really nothing similar to that. I finished it and it wasn't awful...I just got rather bored!
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Historical fiction set in a provincial English spa town. A quick read, but not the best novel - characters a bit too unrealistic.


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