Tag Archive for 'England'

Morton: House at Riverton

Summer 1924: On the eve of a glittering Society party, by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again.
Winter 1999: Grace Bradley, 98, one-time housemaid of Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director [...]

Harris: Gentlemen and Players

Gentlemen and Players is set in St Oswald’s, an old and long-established boys’ grammar school in the north of England. A new year has just begun and for the staff and boys of the school, a wind of unwelcome change is blowing. Beneath the little rivalries, petty disputes and everyday crises of the school, a [...]