Description
Book Synopsis'Charming - a love-letter to home, history, and nature.'
LEAH BROAD, Author of Quartet
'A tender and illuminating history of an overlooked world.'
HORATIO CLARE
'Truly a revelation on every page.'
PETROC TRELAWNY
'A richly textured book, replete with illuminating discoveries and observations.'
COUNTRY LIFE
'A wide-ranging meditation on place and past.'
LITERARY REVIEW
Gavin considered himself an urban being... until he met his husband, Alastair. Together, they bought Stepps House in Pembridge, Herefordshire - on love at first sight. But then came the question: 'How old is it?' With its ancient beams, the date they'd been given seemed out by centuries. As Gavin traced Stepps House through various hands and eras, he saw a past emerge that resonates powerfully with our present.
Mixing history and art, memoir and landscape, A Home for All Seasons is grand in its sweep and intimate in its account of rural life.
Trade ReviewWhat starts out as a straightforward house history morphs into something else, a wide-ranging meditation on place and past, taking in climate change, rural depopulation, the Reformation
and folklore...A gentle, reflective book. Plumley is at his best when describing the things he loves: his husband, his new home, its history.
* Literary Review *
A richly textured book, replete with illuminating discoveries and observations. * Country Life *
A tender and illuminating history of an overlooked world,
A Home for all Seasons is
a beautiful portrait of time and place, a palpable labour of love. -- Horatio Clare, author of SOMETHING OF HIS ART
Charming - a love-letter to home, history and nature. -- Leah Broad, author of QUARTET
Table of Contents1: Never a Native 2: The Unanswered Question 3: Between Bark and Heart 4: Picturing Arcadia 5: Safely Gathered In 6: Across Miles 7: The Dead of Winter 8: Bare Ruin'd Choirs 9: Unsprung 10: The Scent of Hawthorn 11: Before the Fall
