For all of you girls (and guys) loving Downton Abbey, I highly recommend that you read some Ford Madox Ford, who was the king of writing about torrid love affairs in Edwardian England. Most of his novels are about the landed gentry, and take place during World War I.
The Good Soldier is one of my favorite novels that I’ve read in recent memory. For Christmas, I asked my 16-year-old brother Stuprendan to buy me Parade’s End, Madox Ford’s magnum opus, which finally arrived for me in the mail today. I can’t wait to dig into it.
Little did I know how timely my choice was—HBO is currently in production for a five-part miniseries based on the book, which will star Rebecca Hall and Benedict Cumberbatch (for you nerds out there, that’s fucking Sherlock!), and be written by Tom Stoppard. (Oh stop, my beating heart!) It’s coming out sometime this year…my fists are clenched in anticipation!
