The Long Weekend: life in the English country house between the wars
ADRIAN TINNISWOOD

English country houses have provided a genre of their own in architectural history, a tradition of writing led by some of the finest architectural historians Britain has ever seen: Mark Girouard and Clive Aslet are the two outstanding and very much still active examples. Many familiar country house stories have their origins in their books, and readers of Aslet’s The Last Country Houses will recognise more than an echo of it in The Long Weekend.