The second in the series, this one is about the children of the original two characters. Boy, do they repeat some of their parents' mistakes. It's a good lesson for telling all and not keeping secrets.
Wideacre estate has been burned to the ground. The tenants are tired of starving while the masters play. This series enables the readers to learn all the bad points of primogeniture, the rule that said the oldest male only inherited and got everything. A society with so many classes is quite alien to me but very interesting to read about. She is adept at explaining the parts that would be so different, and also leaving just enough left to infer to make it interesting.