The House at Sunset

“At the age of seven I was a skilful pickpocket. I could sew neatly write a tolerable hand make a curtsey and a correct introduction dance a little and play simple tunes on the harpsichord.” This was the London life of Felicity Hatton in 1740 - until chance sent her back to the House first as a pauper later to become its mistress - a strange eccentric mistress whose choice of husband was as unorthodox as her manner of living. The House at Sunset is the last volume of Norah Lofts’ famous House Trilogy and traces the fortunes of the men and woman who lived through Georgian Victorian and New Elizabethan eras.