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Lively spins a social history of upper-class England through a portrait of Golsoncott, a Somerset manor house that her grandmother and family owned fo
Lively spins a social history of upper-class England through a portrait of Golsoncott, a Somerset manor house that her grandmother and family owned for much of the twentieth century. Her way in is through artefacts like paintings and samplers, but also outmoded objects that were once in regular use, such as grape scissors, a bon-bon dish and a gong stand. There are some notable side tracks, such as a reference to the Winchester embroiderers who are the subject of Tracy Chevalier's A Single Thread . The book proceeds roughly chronologically from her childhood (covering the sheltering of WWII evacuees) to her marriage, with subthemes of religion and gardening. One thing I've noted in Lively's nonfiction before is that it feels formulaic, like she made an outline and stuck slavishly to it; the scaffolding is meant to disappear during the writing. If you have a particular interest in a recreation of the time period, this is rather like factual background for the Cazalet Chronicles. I quickly decided to just skim it and leave in a Little Free Library so I don't have to carry it home on the train in my suitcase from a holiday in Berwick."A garden is perilously unstable. A few decades of neglect and it melts into the landscape, its existence to be read only by the perceptive. It becomes archaeology, with some tenacious growths hinting at what once was there. Gardeners know this; the fragility of the past is set against the robustness of digging and planting, the emphatic qualities of earth and roots and stems. To garden is to seize the day."
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