Clifton Manor Episode One edition by Victoria Spencer Literature Fiction eBooks
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The year is 1912, and Clifton Manor is one of the most prestigious homes in the Yorkshire countryside. But as Anna Holden is about to discover, it is a house not only steeped in history, but in secrets as well…
Upon her arrival as the new assistant cook, Anna discovers that a thousand mysteries await her. What lies beyond the heavily padlocked door the other servants do their best to avoid? Who has Lady Clifton been speaking to in such hushed, surreptitious tones? What is the cause of the misfortune running rampant amongst the staff? And why does George Winston, the eligible bachelor of the family, seem more taken with Anna than he does the proper ladies his mother parades before him?
Despite her station in life, Anna can’t seem to put these questions out of her mind. As the pieces fall into place around her, she wonders how long will it be until her own secrets are revealed?
Author's note As you will have noticed, this book is referred to as “Episode One” which may sound like a slightly unusual subtitle for a book. The idea is that there will be six episodes per “season” of this story and I will keep writing it for as long as I have stories to tell in the Clifton Manor universe. I love reading books in the same way I watch TV shows—regular bursts of short, digestible content. This style is not for everyone, but I hope some of you like it and keep reading. I will be releasing episodes of Clifton Manor on a regular basis so you should never have to wait too long for you next fix.
Clifton Manor Episode One edition by Victoria Spencer Literature Fiction eBooks
I tried this and was unable to finish. When Anna came in to serve at a party with her skirt tucked into her knickers (the author says underwear--I live in England, nobody says underwear now, they definitely didn't say it then) I had to stop reading. I don't like American or modern jargon in Edwardian stories and I don't like modern plots and subplots in period pieces where they would never happen. I'm not an absolute stickler for authenticity, but it does have to be believable. No manor house would ever--EVER--have "Welcome to..." carved out in flowers and shrubbery unless the manor house was at Disneyland. This is England, and old money does not pander to theme park gardening. This story, while it may have potential, goes the wrong way too fast. It didn't take me very long to determine this wasn't a series I could get into. It just wasn't for me.Product details
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Clifton Manor Episode One edition by Victoria Spencer Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
I liked the setting. I liked the story and the permutations within the family which were a bit unusual. But I found the ending frustrating. I know this is episode one but it would have been nicer if I could have had a better ending!!!!
The details of how an upper class family lived was descriptive though they certainly did not have the moral standards that were expected for the times. That was an unusual surprise. I will be keeping a lookout for this author because the era and the setting are both definitely my cup of tea.
Poor historical detail, stereotypical characters devoid of complexity, plenty of modern attitude grossly out of place for the time period. Worst of all, multiple storylines begun but not one single one fleshed out or concluded. Take the phrase 'Episode One' as meaning a very long first chapter.
I purchased the book set and the story is good; I didn't even mind they fact that Spencer decided to write it like it was a television series (I like to visualize while reading, so it feels like a series playing out in my mind.) What's bothersome is that the second season is taking entirely too long, and one tends to lose interest. It seems by the time she releases the next series I will not be as invested in reading as I have started reading a few other period novels in excess of 20 books and Clifton manor is becoming a distant memory. I am glad I waited to rate because these books would have gotten all 5 stars, but I think Spencer's long gap in timing of successionwill be this episode based book series literary demise.
I couldn't get into this story. Each chapter is about a different character and I found the flow of the story to therefore be disrupted.
The heroine seems nice enough, the hero a bit of a dim bulb and the hero's family pretty awful -- except for the younger daughter. The other servants are either pleasant or despicable. There is evidently some treachery afoot.
I doubt I shall look for the other installments. This one didn't appeal to me.
Please! Bored of? The upper classes may be accused of many things, but bad grammar is not one of them, and there are far too many examples here to list in a review. Hunting involves horses. Shooting uses guns. Gentlemen in this era shot game, not rabbits, using rifles, not shotguns. The latter are loaded with cartridges, not bullets. No manor house has a drawing room incapable of seating a dozen or so people, and neither is it found necessary to have a reading room as well as a library. I could go on for quite a while, but I won't. Silly, badly researched book.
This series, set in England in the early 20th century, is about a household composed of a lewed, ill-mannered family, and a mostly refined and polite staff.
The idea of a written series is attractive; it should allow the reader to immerse themself in the story and thereby look forward to each new episode as a temporary peak into the life of the household and a welcome escape from contemporary reality.
Unfortunately, there is no such escape; the discrepancy between what is supposed to be is too broad to be compensated by the reader's goodwill it goes beyond the standard elasticity of the imagination.
While the story is set in Georgian England (1912) and depicts the life and times of an upper class family, the dialogue is contemporary Amercian TV series, probably cop-show ( "(how are you, I'm) good"; be "quick on the uptake"; "am I missing s/thing"; (you) "owe me one"; "ma am", etc too many to expand). The characters behave in an implausible manner for any setting, let alone the one proposed a member of staff walking around with her "underwear" (undergarments) showing (!!!), a betrothed who galivants around drunk, harassing the attendant female population in front of his "fiancee", a garden with a welcome note carved into the flower beds in post-WW-2 Soviet fashion, unsavoury characters appearing and throwing themselves onto our main characters. Lots of "parties" (balls, presumably) where one or more of the hosts simply abandones the guests because they are "boring"; servants with an advanced sense of propriety, refinement, and maturity and vulgar ladies of the manor with an advanced sense of debauchery...
The writer's perception and attendant (very poor) opinion of life in upper class England of the early 20th century may be an interesting subject for some; however, what most of us bargained for here is just a story.
And the implausibility of it all, the imprecision, the americanisms, the contemporary behaviour and dialogue, all get in the way of the story -- such as that story is. A period piece would require knowledge of that period (which apparently is absent); failing that, research into the period would cover the needs for a book (research that seemingly was never done). Adding a "papa" and "mama" does not a period piece make.
Instead of recommending the series to readers, I would recommend that the author forgets England and the early 20th century and sets her story somewhere in a contemporary semi-rural US setting; gets rid of the "mama's" & "papa's" and replaces them with mom & dad, the "lady" and replaces them with ma'am. Then things might become a tad more plausible.
I tried this and was unable to finish. When Anna came in to serve at a party with her skirt tucked into her knickers (the author says underwear--I live in England, nobody says underwear now, they definitely didn't say it then) I had to stop reading. I don't like American or modern jargon in Edwardian stories and I don't like modern plots and subplots in period pieces where they would never happen. I'm not an absolute stickler for authenticity, but it does have to be believable. No manor house would ever--EVER--have "Welcome to..." carved out in flowers and shrubbery unless the manor house was at Disneyland. This is England, and old money does not pander to theme park gardening. This story, while it may have potential, goes the wrong way too fast. It didn't take me very long to determine this wasn't a series I could get into. It just wasn't for me.
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