Albion

Philip, the seventy-eight-year-old patriarch of the Brooke family, has died. Set over five tense days, the story of _Albion_ follows the Brookes as they gather at their vast eighteenth-century Sussex estate for the funeral. Due to Philip’s overbearing character selfishness and contradictions, no-one in his immediate family is especially sad about his death. In fact, each of his children has been damaged, both by his actions and by the class they were born into. Frannie, his eldest daughter, is convinced she will inherit the estate, where she lives with her daughter and dreams of continuing the “Albion project” that she and Philip began ten years earlier: rewilding the estate and creating a “nature corridor all the way to the sea.” Her brother Milo, a boarding school survivor and recovering alcoholic and sex addict, imagines a psychedelic treetop retreat for the ultra-rich on a part of the estate that Philip had promised him. Milo’s vision puts him at odds with his sister. Isa, the youngest daughter and a teacher in London, is less concerned with the estate itself. Will she reconnect with her childhood love, who still lives on the estate? And then there is the young American PhD student Clara, rumoured to be Philip’s illegitimate daughter, who has done some digging into the family history and shares her shocking findings at Philip’s commemoration dinner.