The Eldest Son

“I’m most infernally worried,” says Squire Clinton, pausing over boiled eggs and buttered toast after a day’s hunting. His crisis? Dick, his eldest son, is thirty-four and unmarried.

At Kencote, an English country house run by the Squire’s precise rules, the future of the family estate seems to depend on Dick finding a wife and producing an heir. The Squire means to tell him so when he comes home tomorrow. But the household is already facing another upheaval: Miss Bird, governess to the younger children for years, is leaving to care for her widowed sister, and Mrs. Clinton has ideas about what should come next—including sending the girls abroad. How many changes can the Squire bear before his rules give way?

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