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A Home for All Seasons

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All this gleaned while he tried to establish the age of his Tudor-looking property, for which there was no definitive record. Afew years ago, Gavin Plumley and his husband, Alastair, bought a house in the Herefordshire village of Pembridge. With passion and precision, Gavin Plumley pushes the boundaries of memoir and scholarship and shows that the chronicle of a house can contain the grand history of a whole world as well as the sweet, urgent story of a life: all that intimacy within the vastness of historical time.

A hybrid work of domestic history and European art, of memoir and landscape, A Home for All Seasons is both grand in its sweep and intimate in its account of life on the edge of England. A wonderful meeting of memoir and landscape, both rigorous and freewheeling, expansive and intimate, rendered in dreamy prose.Slightly Foxed introduces its readers to books that are no longer new and fashionable but have lasting appeal.

To become a subscriber to Slightly Foxed: The Real Reader’s Quarterly Magazine, please visit our subscriptions page. But I have a love of art, literature, gardening, architecture and history (all represented throughout the book) and yet I still felt long portions overly tedious and at times pretentious. The independent-minded quarterly magazine that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. It’s rare that non-fiction has the power to transport you so completely and catch you up in a world that you have never known, and that you never want to leave.

His efforts involved bringing in experts to assess the tree rings in the beams as they can accurately date a building. Engrossingly fusing domestic history, memoir and art, Gavin Plumley’s A Home for All Seasons tells the fascinating story of a couple’s journey of discovering the full past of their ancient Herefordshire house. I listened to the audible audio edition but it isn't on Goodreads yet and I can't find the asin number to add it. Working with several interlocking cycles chiefly the seasons in art, farming and Elizabethan England, this book is also an extended meditation on the big issues of today and their effects on village life. Corvus Atlantic’s commercial fiction list which includes women’s, historical, romance, sci-fi, crime and thriller.

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