Rogue Herries " review
Theatre by the Lake, KeswickJohn Buchan believed Hugh Walpole's Rogue Herries " the first of an epic tetralogy charting the fortunes of a down-at-heel Cumberland dynasty " to be "the greatest English novel since Jude the Obscure". Since then, few novels have become quite so obscure. The public's taste for Walpole's overstuffed historical romances waned rapidly after the second world war.Walpole described the novel as…