Attention Abbots and fans of serialized fiction! Julian Fellowes, the award-winning executive producer of Downton Abbey, is releasing a new novel titled Belgravia. It will be published as a serial, one installment week-by-week, beginning in April.
Set in the 1840s, Belgravia is described as a story about a secret. It takes place in the Belgravia neighborhood of London, what Fellowes describes as "one of the world's grandest post codes ... just a stones throw away from Buckingham Palace."
All we know for now is that the story begins on the night before the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 at a ball hosted by the Duchess of Richmond and centers around one presumably well-to-do English family.
The inspiration for launching it as a serial comes from the one and only Charles Dickens. How appropriate that he lived at the same time that Belgravia is set.
To get your eyes (or ears if audiobooks are more your style) on the story you'll need an app on your mobile, tablet or desktop device. The app will be announced in April on the Belgravia website. The first installment will be free. Each one after that will cost $1.99 or $13.99 for a subscription.
Why so secretive? Only three more months until the secret begins to unravel.
(h/t Rolling Stone)
