The Temple of Optimism

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Summary: A Laugh-aloud Pleasure
Review: Here is a Trollope-ian romp through Eighteenth Century England's country set, from landed gentry (the chief characters) to the well-drawn eccentricities of the local unlanded. The chapters dealing with the "villain's" dinner party are not to be missed. How come no one else writes this stuff this well?

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Summary: Read the book not the reviews!
Review: Temple of Optimism is one of those books that puts a smile on your face as you read it. Its about England before the car came and, for better or worse, opened the country for all to see.

And its about people that fill your living room with a world that you know was real, because of the great mansions which inhabit the oh so English countryside, but which needs a real writer to breath life into. James Fleming weaves intrigue around those essentials of life: Land, love and money.

I got absorbed from the start, was engrossed during the middle and sped to the end.