![]() The death of a pregnant servant girl is the beginning of the end of their tranquil life in the English countryside. (Cooke may be better known to some of you as Elizabeth McGregor.) The Cavendish family, long bound by tradition, begins to unravel in the months before the start of World War I. The secrets, betrayals, and restlessness of an aristocratic British family are the focus of Elizabeth Cooke’s new novel Rutherford Park. That was what would bring them all down, he had thought. Moments of seeming inconsequence that, in retrospect, had awful significance. Worlds turned on such things: small things overlooked. ![]() Wrong turns, careless inattention, stray words, fleeting looks. That was what human beings were taken down by, he thought: not giant chaos, but trivial mistakes. ![]()
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