{"product_id":"restoration-heart-9781472132185","title":"Restoration Heart","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Breathtaking untold story . . . riotously colourful'' \u003ci\u003eMail on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''I read most of it in one exciting sitting. It is brilliant, gripping and sad'' Harry Mount\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRestoration Heart \u003c\/i\u003eis a story of love, double divorce and redemption. It is a biography of the heart, and of a house. When William Cash suffers a post-divorce, mid-life breakdown, aged 43, life seemed bleak - but things were about to change. Like William himself, his old Shropshire family house Upton Cressett was in as much in need of being rescued and ''fixed up'' as its owner. As William embarks on re-building his life and ruin of a country house, he starts looking again for love. But money, patience and the likelihood of ever finding family happiness soon start to run out.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on his haul of letters written to various wives, fiancées and girlfriends - all potential third wives - the book follows Cash''s search for a chatelaine for Upton Cressett. \u003ci\u003eRestoration Heart\u0026lt;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBreathtaking untold story . . . riotously colourful * Mail on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003eA touching, entertaining memoir which traces the twin track restoration of a broken heart and dilapidated Shropshire Manor * The Tablet *\u003cbr\u003eImmensely readable . . . Laugh-out-loud funny, \u003ci\u003eRestoration Heart \u003c\/i\u003eis a delightful true story of love, hope and redemption by one of the foremost society writers of our day * Tatler *\u003cbr\u003eAn excellent memoir * Nicholas Coleridge *\u003cbr\u003eThis entertaining, often poignant, book is straight out of Waugh or Wodehouse * Catholic Herald *\u003cbr\u003eAn endearing story of rebuilding and restoring * You magazine *\u003cbr\u003eA funny and unexpectedly touching book * Country Life *\u003cbr\u003eI read most of it in one exciting sitting. It's brilliant, gripping and sad. The personal romantic memoir is terrific\u003cbr\u003eHilarious . . . \u003ci\u003eRestoration Heart \u003c\/i\u003econveys the transformative power of good architecture . . . this book is one to be treasured * The New Criterion *\u003cbr\u003eRecommended . . . unexpected poignancy * New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003eA very amusing and candid memoir * Jeremy Musson, architectural historian and broadcaster *\u003cbr\u003eI'm very much enjoying \u003ci\u003eRestoration Heart\u003c\/i\u003e * John Challis, aka Boyce in Only Fools and Horses and restore-a-wreck author *\u003cbr\u003eCash emerges as a flamboyant character . . . a classically English romantic . . . Cash's transition is genuinely endearing * The Art Newspaper *\u003cbr\u003eRecommended * Historic House *\u003cbr\u003eIntriguing . . . wittily recounted and moving . . . This book will surely give heart to anyone embarking on a seemingly Sisyphean restoration job, be it of the house or of the soul * The Lady *\u003cbr\u003eCash, who has often written of society and scandal, is adept at setting dramatic scenes throughout his memoir. Yet there's another layer to \u003ci\u003eRestoration Heart\u003c\/i\u003e-an acute literary sense . . . \u003ci\u003eRestoration Heart \u003c\/i\u003eis buoyed by Cash's self-effacing humor. He's a romantic when it comes to love, and also writing * The Millions *\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48739380560215,"sku":"9781472132185","price":18.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781472132185.jpg?v=1723812230","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/restoration-heart-9781472132185","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}