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A Home for All Seasons

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Unfortunately, it veered away from that and turned into an odd sort of history of the English village and a discussion of one particular artist’s set of paintings. Afew years ago, Gavin Plumley and his husband, Alastair, bought a house in the Herefordshire village of Pembridge. He has also been interviewed about the book by Michael Portillo on Times Radio and by Georgina Godwin for Monocle 24, as well as by the BBC local radio in Hereford and Worcester, Cornwall and Gloucestershire.

A wonderful meeting of memoir and landscape, both rigorous and freewheeling, expansive and intimate, rendered in dreamy prose.The perfect Christmas present for anyone who has ever been curious about the house they live in and who might (or might not) have lived there before them. 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. Beautifully written and structured, Plumley’s writing is vivid and captures bucolic scenes perfectly. From a simple question about the age of a house, this book takes you on a much wider journey, encompassing art, literature, history and nature, as well as the inescapable fragility of life. With ancient beams crossing the ceiling, the date they'd been given of 1800 seemed out by centuries.

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Grove Press An imprint of Grove Atlantic, an American independent publisher, who publish in the UK through Atlantic Books. There were moments which felt “socially preachy” and I find that annoying, especially when I already feel that the book was misrepresented to me. 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.

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.

Furthermore, if those who decide the allocations of the real and unreal are cruel, mad or colossally wrong, what then? The book is supposed to be about the history of a house in Pembridge, Herefordshire, (near where I live), that the author bought with his husband, according to the blurb and insinuated by the title and dust wrapper illustration, but the information assembled is so meagre that, I’m afraid, I felt that I had been conned. His efforts involved bringing in experts to assess the tree rings in the beams as they can accurately date a building. I assumed (like other reviewers) that this would concentrate on the house and surrounding areas of Herefordshire where author Gavin Plumley lives.

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