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Three Houses

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E-book, E-Book (USA), Paperback

Author Angela Thirkell
Rights World English
ISBN 9780749012397
Pages 388
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A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week

 

‘There is always in our minds the hope that we may find again those golden unhastening days and wake up and dream’

In these beautifully nostalgic memoirs, eminent author Angela Thirkell recalls in rich detail the three houses in which she grew up and the childhood memories their walls contain. Focusing first on ‘The Grange’, where her grandfather, the celebrated Pre-Raphaelite painter Sir Edward Burne-Jones, set the cultivated tone, Thirkell also reminisces over her parents’ home in Kensington Square and the Burne-Jones seaside retreat, where Angela’s cousin, Rudyard Kipling, lived across the green. Her elaborate portraits of the three houses and the lives within provide an invaluable insight into late Victorian life, while the personal recollections of Thirkell’s famous grandfather reveal a loving family man behind the renown.

A tale of forbidden explorations, Punch and Judy shows, and adventures in the garden, Three Houses is beautifully evocative of the innocent quality of childhood. Providing a snapshot of history from the busy literary centre of London to the English coast, these stunning memoirs are both reminiscent of the golden days of youth and an interesting vision of a writer and the early influences that informed her later work.

What The Critics Said

'This is a fond and joyous book about "golden unhastening days"...and the pleasures of growing up in an artistic and literary family'

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