Revolving around the aristocratic and dysfunctional Trelawneys as they struggle to deal with the financial crash of 2008, their own bad choices and their crumbling 800-year-old castle, it moves between the lush coast of south Cornwall and the high-rise sterility of the City of London. Hannah Rothschild’s second novel is a multi-generational family saga of the kind popular in the 1980s.
Whether your image of it is indebted to Poldark and Daphne du Maurier, or gritty nonfiction accounts of financial struggle such as Catrina Davies’s Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed and Gavin Knight’s The Swordfish and the Star, it has become the inspiration both for our loveliest dreams and post-Brexit nightmares. C ornwall is once again big in fiction and film.
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