A Home for All Seasons

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This was particularly shown in the art of the time which was influenced by the more sophisticated European styles and techniques. I really hate giving up on books I start reading, especially expensive hardback books like this one, but after persevering for days, I started skimming for information on the purported subject without luck and decided I’d wasted enough of my life on it. Those involved Protestants escaping mainland Europe and the consequent difficulties they had in integrating with the existing population.

Grove Press An imprint of Grove Atlantic, an American independent publisher, who publish in the UK through Atlantic Books. As Gavin traced Stepps House through various hands and eras, he saw a past emerge that resonates powerfully with our present.As Gavin traced Stepps House through various hands and eras, he uncovers a past steeped in history and art, memory and nature that resonates powerfully with our present.

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. This being said, lovely read but a bit of a long winded one, It could have been two books - The history of the house and the live of the author in my opinion. 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. I almost felt that I had somehow been tricked into reading it by a “false description” given by the publisher and even those who had reviewed and blurbed it.Furthermore, if those who decide the allocations of the real and unreal are cruel, mad or colossally wrong, what then? 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.