Pride and Avarice

by Nicholas Coleridge

Miles Straker has it all: a successful PR business, a dutiful wife & family, and a charming country manor. Chawbury Manor, that is. What could possibly ruin his happiness?

Enter Ross Clegg, another successful entrepreneur and self-made millionaire. Moreover, Clegg is building a new home right by Chawbury Manor. And, yes, Chawbury Park is bigger and grander than Chawbury Manor.

What begins as petty jealousy turns into an all-out war between the families. As the novel progresses, members of the Straker family find themselves entangled with the Clegg family, and the "treachery" becomes too much for Miles.

I really enjoyed the clever plotting of this novel, though it is a bit long.

8/13/10