Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of an English Dynasty

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At first I was really excited about this book, but just over half way I got quite fed up with it and found finishing it a struggle. Considering how I started with it I am left feeling quite disappointed. I cannot praise this book enough. I enjoyed this book so much. I found myself not being able to put it down from the moment I started reading it.

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This book was a little different for me than The Secret Rooms. With The Secret Rooms we jumped right into the story and the family history/scandal etc. So how does this extensive fortune and massive house end up on the real estate market in 2014 in need of mass repairs? Klarna has been a “Trusted Shops Authorized Partner” since 2011 and as an “authorized partner”, Klarna's processes are perfectly adapted to the Trusted Shops quality criteria. The Trusted Shops quality criteria are based on national and European laws that are important for online shopping. They take into account the current judgments and requirements of consumer protection organizations or go even further. Read more about the Trusted Shops seal of approval here. To give this a 3 star rating? Yes, I'm conflicted. My enjoyment in the reading was nearly a 5. But I love historical text and this work held much of that social mores, economics of changing industry, class conflict, and governmental parsing and perceptions far beyond it's title designation. To me the problem is that towards the beginning there’s a perfect balance of family “gossip” and contextual history but the more you do into the book the “gossip” element gets less and the history part increases. Now obviously I’d expect and indeed enjoy some history/setting for all this but for me it just tips too far that way. There are a lot of ‘just’ history books about this period I could buy after all. I do know the author struggled from a lot of the documentation being destroyed but I would have rather had a shorter book than what feels at times like padding.

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The family charting in front was absolutely necessary. So many people, so much dysfunction. And for all their wealth, miniscule understanding of health or cure for nearly anything that ailed them. The numbers of populations that they employed! Collapse eventually, and not just for the Fitzwilliam family or Wentworth heirs.

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The demise of Wentworth and the Fitzwilliams is a riveting account of aristocratic decline and fall, set in the grandest house in England.I had only recently finished reading Mda's memoir Sometimes there is a Void and so was aware that a lot of the book is based on his own real-life experiences. It is social satire, and the story is rather sad, but Mda also sees the funny side of it. An aristocratic tale of epic proportions, this gripping novel cleverly interweaves interviews, letters and historical fact . . . Fascinating' Easy Living His first play, We Shall Sing for the Fatherland, won the first Amstel Playwright of the Year Award in 1978, a feat he repeated the following year. He worked as a bank clerk, a teacher and in marketing before the publication of We Shall Sing for the Fatherland and Other Plays in 1980 enabled him to be admitted to the Ohio University for a three-year Master's degree in theatre. He completed a Masters Degree in Theatre at Ohio University, after which he obtained a Master of Arts Degree in Mass Communication. By 1984 his plays were performed in the USSR, the USA, and Scotland as well as in various parts of southern Africa.