Shooting party, paperback/isabel colegate

It is 1913 - just prior to Englands entry into World War I - and Edwardian England is about to vanish into history.

A group of men and women gather at Sir Randolph Nettlebys estate for a shooting party.

Opulent, adulterous, moving assuredly through the rituals of eating and slaughter, they are a dazzlingly obtuse and brilliantly decorative finale of an era.