Saxonford

Saxonford is a diverting and amusing account of the rise, fall, and extinction of four great aristocratic English families, exploring the advantages and snares of hereditary titles from Her Majesty Queen Victoria to the lowest form of vacuous viscount, set in a mire of inbreeding, murder, madness, disease and historically accuracy. This is a tale of scandalous Dukes and Duchesses, Lords and Ladies, vying for Royal favour in the bare necessities of privilege, title, precedence and lineage. Reminiscent of Waugh and Mitford, this novel is immensely available to a modern audience, an incestuous cousin of Brideshead Revisited and Barton Abbey.

Saxonford – Set in the mire of historical accuracy and a pattern of inbreeding, corruption, murder, sex and madness where Dukes and Duchesses, Lords and Ladies vie for royal favour in preserving their lives of prosperity and privilege. Saxonford – is an entertaining saga of the rise, fall and extinction of four eminent aristocratic English families, exploring the advantages and snares of hereditary titles, precedence and lineage from the majesty of Queen Victoria to the lowest form of vacuous viscount. Saxonford – is a story accessible to a modern audience, redolent of the writers Waugh, Wodehouse and Mitford – a decadently inherited diseased cousin to the likes of Brideshead Revisited and Barton Abbey.

D. L. Forbes is an artist & writer who works & resides in Northern California Western Scotland & Southern England.