Cooke portrays an aristocratic dynasty that in 1914 was poised on the brink of extinction, as ponderous as the huge dinosaurs but just as magnificent. Praise for Rutherford Park : ' A breathtakingly beautiful book. In the wake of a terrible war, the emotional shifts between a husband and a wife, a wife and her lover, and a mother and her children, will shake the very foundation of the Cavendish family, and change the uniquely vulnerable lives of all who reside at Rutherford Park. But when their son Harry joins the Royal Flying Corps in France, the Cavendish family are forced to face the unavoidable truths about themselves, the society in which they thrive, and the secrets they can no longer bear. At the risk of undoing the Cavendish name with scandal, William and Octavia Cavendish have been living a lie, maintaining a marriage out of duty rather than passion. On the first morning in May, 1915, with a splendid view that reached across the gardens to the Vale of York, nothing seemed lovelier or less threatening.

From inside their sprawling estate of Rutherford Park, the Cavendish family had a privileged perspective of the world. When May came that year in Rutherford, it was more beautiful than anyone could ever remember. Now comes the new novel of Rutherford Park by the acclaimed Elizabeth Cooke.

'I found myself addicted to Rutherford Park, much as I was to Downton Abbey ' (Margaret Wurtele on Rutherford Park ).

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