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In addition to Henry Green's sublime Loving, a possible cure for country house Anglophilia is to explore the Irish 'Big House' genre: Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September, a dark masterpiece set during the War of Independence, or John Banville's under-appreciated warped gothic tale Birchwood, perhaps.

Or - if you require the full English - L.P. Hartley's The Go-Between is both lovely and lastingly bitter.