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Love in Old Age - My Year in the Wight House (Hardcover)
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Love in Old Age - My Year in the Wight House (Hardcover)
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List price R540
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Discovery Miles 4 320
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A wryly humorous memoir from Hunter Davies, as he falls in love
again in his eighties and chronicles the first year of living with
his new girlfriend in their cottage on the Isle of Wight. King
Charles I was imprisoned here; Queen Victoria so liked its mild
climate and coastal scenery that she built an Italianate house here
(and later expired in it); hundreds of thousands of people got
stoned here at music festivals in the 1960s summers of love. And,
in the very un-hippyish summer of 2020, Hunter and Claire escaped
locked-down North London for a week's holiday on the Isle of Wight,
fell in love with its sleepy charm - and ended up buying a Grade
2-listed love nest in the elegant Victorian seaside resort of Ryde.
Love in Old Age tells the story of their first twelve months on the
island. It is a journey of discovery to a forgotten corner of
England; an exploration of the attraction of meeting new people and
new places in old age, and a celebration of flat sandy beaches. It
brings together the themes of love in old age; Covid lockdown;
rural escape; the anxieties of house-buying; and the history and
curiosities of England's largest and second most populous island -
all bound together by Hunter Davies's insatiable curiosity about
people and places, and his irrepressible and ironic sense of
humour.
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