Fairhaven is where the Farradays have a house, and George buys another near theirs. Fairhaven is an affluent coastal residential district in Lancashire, England, nestled between the towns of Lytham and St Annes-on-the-Sea.
Stephen Farraday and Rosemary met when they were in St Moritz. St. Moritz is a luxury alpine resort town in Switzerland’s Engadin valley.
When Rosemary complains about a headache, Sandra offers her Cachet Faivre. Cachets Faivre were a famous brand of French powdered painkiller widely used across Europe during the late 19th and mid-20th centuries to treat headaches, flu, fever, neuralgia, and rheumatism.
The champagne they drank was Clicquot. Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin is a Champagne house founded in 1772 and based in Reims. It is one of the largest[2] Champagne houses.
There are some expressions that I have learnt in this book:
Care-worn is an adjective that means showing physical signs of exhaustion, stress, sorrow, or long-term worry.
Cheese-paring is a noun or adjective that means extreme stinginess, penny-pinching, or the miserly economizing of small amounts of money.
Namby-pamby is a term for affected, weak, and maudlin speech/verse.
Rumbustious is an adjective that means noisy, lively, and full of high-energy fun, often in a slightly wild or rowdy way.
Hidebound is an adjective that describes a person, system, or idea that is stubbornly rigid, old-fashioned, and unwilling to change or accept new ways of thinking.
An upstart is a person, group, or company that has suddenly risen to wealth, power, or success, but often behaves arrogantly and shows a lack of respect or experience.
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