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A novella about war, politics and love, based on the life of the most shadowy and mysterious of Queen Victoria's Prime Ministers - George Gordon, cousin of Lord Byron and the only Prime Minister between Wellington and Churchill to have experienced war at first hand.
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George Gordon, cousin to Byron, heir to a desolate Scottish estate, superficially enjoys a brilliant career: he dines at Malmaison with Napoleon and Josephine, excavates the Acropolis, shares a night in a hayloft with Metternich, inherits the Earldom of Aberdeen, marries two beautiful women, becomes Foreign Secretary twice and then ultimately Prime Minister.
Yet Lord Aberdeen remains an awkward, tragic figure, increasingly at odds with his times, shattered by repeated bereavements, loathed, abused and eventually driven out of office by his fellow countrymen for his doomed efforts to prevent the Crimean War.
'A triumph' Allan Massie - The Scotsman
'Mount is a fresh and brilliant historical writer; he brings a haunted and scorned statesman sympathetically to life and makes the past breathe again' Sunday Times
'Anyone for wit? Anyone for elegance? Anyone for style? The novella is back' The Times
'Umbrella has a powerful, melancholy and peculiarly English charm...a most affecting story' Sunday Telegraph
A novella about war, politics and love, based on the life of the most shadowy and mysterious of Queen Victoria's Prime Ministers - George Gordon, cousin of Lord Byron and the only Prime Minister between Wellington and Churchill to have experienced war at first hand.
From the Back Cover
George Gordon, cousin to Byron, heir to a desolate Scottish estate, superficially enjoys a brilliant career: he dines at Malmaison with Napoleon and Josephine, excavates the Acropolis, shares a night in a hayloft with Metternich, inherits the Earldom of Aberdeen, marries two beautiful women, becomes Foreign Secretary twice and then ultimately Prime Minister.
Yet Lord Aberdeen remains an awkward, tragic figure, increasingly at odds with his times, shattered by repeated bereavements, loathed, abused and eventually driven out of office by his fellow countrymen for his doomed efforts to prevent the Crimean War.
'A triumph' Allan Massie - The Scotsman
'Mount is a fresh and brilliant historical writer; he brings a haunted and scorned statesman sympathetically to life and makes the past breathe again' Sunday Times
'Anyone for wit? Anyone for elegance? Anyone for style? The novella is back' The Times
'Umbrella has a powerful, melancholy and peculiarly English charm...a most affecting story' Sunday Telegraph
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