Statues in a Garden

“Isabel Colegate is not afraid of ideas nor of using fiction to express them. In this rich and fascinating book, someone is hiding something—possibly everyone is. Time itself obscures the truth. Can the past be known? Or is what we call history the best of recollection, not absolute but consensual, and always subject to interpretation?” —Los Angeles Times

“I am afraid I have something to tell you . . . It is that we are all about to be destroyed.”

1914. The old standards are going. There is bitterness in politics, talk of civil war in Ireland. But all this means little to Cynthia Weston, the attractive wife of cabinet member Aylmer Weston, and her nephew by marriage, Philip. They are caught up in the charmed, perilous toils of a mutual passion that will destroy all they hold most dear—while the shadow of war lengthens and darkens, ready to swallow them whole.

A captivating portrait of a lost world, Statues in a Garden is a rediscovered masterpiece by one of the most important and neglected British female writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.