Since he has presumably been brought up below standards somewhere in the wilds of Yorkshire, Darracott is determined to bring him up to snuff, one way or the other. Darracott summons him (Hugo) to the manor. (It takes a while to sort out the family tree.) Now, to Darracott’s dismay, the son of his (deceased) ex-favorite is next in line to be heir. However, Darracott’s eldest son died in an accident along with that son’s son. So no one really followed what happened to the ex-favorite. Darracott had other sons and they had sons. When he married beneath him, Lord Darracott cut him off. Many years ago, his favorite son joined the military and ended up falling in love with a weaver’s daughter. Lord Darracott is elderly and a crotchety tyrant. This novel concerns a large and extremely dysfunctional aristocratic family living out in the country, the Darracotts.
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