Judy Corbett
Teoksen Castles in the Air: The Restoration Adventures of Two Young Optimists and a Crumbling Old Mansion tekijä
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Judy Corbett is founder and executive director of the Local Governement Commission.
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- Kanoninen nimi
- Corbett, Judy
- Sukupuoli
- female
- Kansalaisuus
- UK
- Maa (karttaa varten)
- UK
- Ammatit
- antiquarian bookbinder
- Lyhyt elämäkerta
- Judy Corbett trained as an antiquarian bookbinder and lives in a medieval castle in the foothills of Snowdonia. She wrote about her and her husband's experiences of rescuing a crumbling mansion in the much praised Castles in the Air. Envy is her first novel.
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- Teokset
- 3
- Jäseniä
- 174
- Suosituimmuussija
- #123,126
- Arvio (tähdet)
- 4.0
- Kirja-arvosteluja
- 10
- ISBN:t
- 15
This question of money is the part that required the most suspension of disbelief for me, and that is saying a lot considering that we have a ghost story to deal with partway through. But if you can get past all that, it is a fantastic book of falling passionately in love with a particular place and time. The author's description of how the castle makes her feel connected to the past in a visceral, immediate, shock-and-awe way rings true for me because I've felt that twice in my life and have chased it ever since. It is a delight to read about two people whose interests run not broad but deep, very deep, into one particular time and place, and their happiness and satisfaction with their choices swept me along.… (lisätietoja)