Book cover for The Absentee

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Just before coming of age, Lord Colambre, the sensitive hero of the novel, finds that his mother Lady Clonbrony's attempts to buy her way into the high society of London are only ridiculed, while his father, Lord Clonbrony, is in serious debt as a result of his wife's lifestyle. Colambre falls in love with his mother's companion, his supposed cousin, Grace Nugent.
  • ISBN10 1625583400
  • ISBN13 9781625583406
  • Publish Date 3 January 2013 (first published 1 November 1978)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Start Publishing
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 254
  • Language English