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Three Houses
Price: Price range: £6.99 through £10.99
| Format | E-book, E-Book (USA), Paperback |
|---|---|
| Author | Angela Thirkell |
| Rights | World English |
| ISBN | 9780749012397 |
| Pages | 388 |
Description
A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week
โThere is always in our minds the hope that we may find again those golden unhastening days and wake up and dreamโ
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 โThe Grangeโ, where her grandfather, the celebrated Pre-Raphaelite painter Sir Edward Burne-Jones, set the cultivated tone, Thirkell also reminisces over her parentsโ home in Kensington Square and the Burne-Jones seaside retreat, where Angelaโs 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 Thirkellโs 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'Good Book Guide
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