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Format: Paperback
£9.99
Author:
Gillian Tindall
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780749320256
£9.99
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EAN: 9780749320256
Published: 25 Mar 1996
When Gillian Tindall discovered a cache of tightly folded letters in a deserted house in central France, recently emptied of 150 years of a family's possessions, she uncovered the obscure and moving life of one woman, Celestine Chaumette. This is Tindall's brilliantly original recreation of the vanished world of a French village.
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[A] modest little book, well on its way to becoming a modern classic.
- Independent
Rich, satisfying, warm and utterly vivid
- Mail on Sunday
A wonderful book... [Her] history is acutely visual... The book is a masterpiece of miniaturist history
- Times Literary Supplement
This is history at its most interesting and compelling
- Sunday Express
No other living foreign writer has gone deeper into the psyche of rural France
- Observer
A wonderfully evocative book... This is social history at its best
- Spectator
Gillian Tindall is a master of miniaturist history, making a handful of people, a few places or a dramatic event stand for the much larger picture. Well-known for the quality of her writing and the meticulous nature of her research, she has written highly praised regional histories of Kentish Town (The Fields Beneath), London's Southbank (The House by the Thames) and the Latin Quarter of Paris (Footprints in Paris), as well as prize-winning novels and history. She lives in London.
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