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PRAISE FOR

The Shooting Party

Winner of the W. H. Smith Literary Award

(British Book of the Year, 1981)

“The Shooting Party is altogether admirable: so graceful and stylish, elegant and intelligent, skillful and absorbingly interesting. Really wonderful.”

—Alice Adams

“Colegate explores a world-upper-class England on the eve of the Great War—with affection and distance, recording its grace as well as its cruelty, setting it off now from this point of view, now from that, in order to see it whole, and finally making it both meaningful and moving.”

—The Atlantic Monthly

“Beautifully written to create a world of elegant adulterous women and acid voices. The irony of the great European slaughter that lies ahead does not need to be pressed.”

—The Times (London)

“It is not only about the events of 1913, it might somehow have come forward from the literature of 1913—a lost manuscript by a fine author, let us say, published at last after being found under some linens in the ancestral armoire. Colegate’s prose is dimly luminous, like ancient silver ... A feast of elegant writing.”

—The Los Angeles Times

“I can hardly find the superlatives with which to describe it. Stylish, funny and infinitely subtle, it is as vivid and brilliant as a painting on glass.”

—Daily Telegraph (London)

“A novel of unusual force and flavor ... There is a tension and the unfolding of character and a sense of mind and manners, and without ever raising her voice or underlining a word, Miss Colegate also manages to suggest the impending end of an era—to compose a gentle requiem for a time now distant.”

—The New Yorker