The story begins when the narrator, an architectural painter-turned-soldier, recognizes his new army camp as the titular mansion.
Its narrator attended school with Apthorpe, who would later serve in the army with Guy Crouchback in another work by this book's author. The search for Effie lands Boy Mulcaster and the narrator in jail but they are bailed out by Rex Mottram, who later marries Julia. After meeting the narrator by vomiting into his window, Julia's brother Sebastian ends up serving in a monastery in Carthage. The siblings are the children of the staunchly Catholic Lady Marchmain, on whose death the narrator received his first commission. The story begins when the narrator, an architectural painter-turned-soldier, recognizes his new army camp as the titular mansion. FTP, name this novel narrated by Charles Ryder; a work by Evelyn Waugh.
Its narrator attended school with Apthorpe, who would later serve in the army with Guy Crouchback in another work by this book's author.
Brideshead Revisited