Downton Abbey-esque Books

Happy Tuesday!

Do you guys ever get so involved with TV shows, movies, or books -- their characters and their stories -- that sometimes it's kind of hard to let them go and you get a bit obsessed and can't stop talking about them?

Yeah?! Then phew, I'm not alone, haha! ;)

Anyway, my obsession love for Downton Abbey was very well-documented here on my blog and also on Twitter...



I definitely experienced what some call "Downton Abbey withdrawal" when I finished watching Season 2, so I immediately looked up Downton Abbey-esque books I can read (to make me stop watching Downton Abbey clips on YouTube, haha!). ;)

Here are three books that you can read to help ease the pain of waiting for Downton Abbey Season 3:

Book #1: The American Heiress -- Daisy Goodwin

Traveling abroad with her mother at the turn of the twentieth century to seek a titled husband, beautiful, vivacious Cora Cash, whose family mansion in Newport dwarfs the Vanderbilts’, suddenly finds herself Duchess of Wareham, married to Ivo, the most eligible bachelor in England. Nothing is quite as it seems, however: Ivo is withdrawn and secretive, and the English social scene is full of traps and betrayals. Money, Cora soon learns, cannot buy everything, as she must decide what is truly worth the price in her life and her marriage.

Book #2: The House At Riverton -- Kate Morton

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, ninety-eight, one-time housemaid of Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director making a film about the poet's suicide. Ghosts awaken and old memories - long consigned to the dark reaches of Grace's mind - begin to sneak back through the cracks. A shocking secret threatens to emerge, something history has forgotten but Grace never could.

Set as the war-shattered Edwardian summer surrenders to the decadent twenties, The House at Riverton is a thrilling mystery and a compelling love story.

Book #3: The House At Tyneford -- Natasha Solomons

It's the spring of 1938 and no longer safe to be a Jew in Vienna. Nineteen-year-old Elise Landau is forced to leave her glittering life of parties and champagne to become a parlor maid in England. She arrives at Tyneford, the great house on the bay, where servants polish silver and serve drinks on the lawn. But war is coming, and the world is changing. When the master of Tyneford's young son, Kit, returns home, he and Elise strike up an unlikely friendship that will transform Tyneford - and Elise - forever.

***book summaries from www.goodreads.com***

Are these the kinds of books you like to read?
Which one sounds the most interesting to you?

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