The Inheritance: Part One, Chapters 1–7 of 34

By Tilly Bagshawe

Welcome to Tilly Bagshawe’s Swell Valley, where the scandal is in a class of its own.

Tilly Bagshawe’s first Swell Valley novel, The Inheritance, has been serialized into 4 parts – this is PART 1 OF 4 (Chapters 1 to 7 of 34).

*The first three parts of The Inheritance are being released weekly from 29th May 2014, before the full novel is published. The final part will be released on 19th June 2014, when the full novel will also be available to buy in ebook and paperback*

Tatiana Flint-Hamilton’s gilded cage is torn away when her estranged father dies. As the beloved family estate slips through Tati’s fingers, the portraits of her ancestors look down disapprovingly.

The new Lord of the Manor is just as ruthless as Tati. The old-world status of Furlings is everything the wealthy, self-made Brett Cranley has ever wanted. Luckily his wife Angela is the perfect homemaker, happy to fall into line with whatever Brett desires. Along with her two children, Furlings soon becomes Angela’s lifeline, a place she can finally belong. And one she’s not going to give up easily.

Losing everything has made Tati realise that her rightful inheritance is all that she now lives for… and she will do anything to get it back.

But the fate of Furlings lies in the hands of the villagers.

Let the Fittlescombe fireworks begin!

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins UK
• Release date: May 29, 2014
• ISBN: 9780007595976

Tilly Bagshawe

Tilly Bagshawe is a New York Times bestselling author whose books include Sidney Sheldon’s Chasing Tomorrow, Sidney Sheldon’s The Tides of Memory, Sidney Sheldon’s Angel of the Dark, Sidney Sheldon’s After the Darkness, and Sidney Sheldon’s Mistress of the Game. She lives in Los Angeles, California, and London with her husband and children.

Reviews for The Inheritance

[elkiedee · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Tatiana is a furious young woman as her father has left the family house to Australian relatives and made it a condition that if she wants to receive a legacy from him she needs to take a job in the village school. The new owner of the house, Brett Cranley, is an obnoxious business men, in the field of property speculation.This was a fun read though written in rather purple prose at times, opening with an adjective laden description of a beautiful Sussex village, and a heroine who is stunningly beautiful and a spoiled brat. The storyline is quite farfetched but I did come to want to know what would happen to most of the characters. Although the setting is supposedly contemporary, it did remind me a bit of the 80s style bonkbusters which mixed sex and glamour with business and money.