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The Last Landlady - An English Memoir (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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The Last Landlady - An English Memoir (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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Shortlisted for Harper's Bazaar Book of the Year 2019 A Guardian,
Spectator and Mail on Sunday Book of the Year 2018 'A lyrical
portrait of a fast-vanishing way of life . . . Thompson is a
terrific writer'New Statesman Laura Thompson's grandmother Violet
was one of the great landladies. Born in a London pub, she became
the first woman to be given a publican's licence in her own name
and, just as pubs defined her life, she seemed in many ways to
embody their essence. Laura spent part of her childhood in Violet's
Home Counties establishment, mesmerised by her gift for cultivating
the mix of cosiness and glamour that defined the pub's atmosphere,
making it a unique reflection of the national character. Her
memories of this time are just as intoxicating: beer and ash on the
carpets in the morning, the deepening rhythms of mirth at night,
the magical brightness of glass behind the bar... Through them
Laura traces the story of the English pub, asking why it has
occupied such a treasured position in our culture. But even Violet,
as she grew older, recognised that places like hers were a dying
breed, and Laura also considers the precarious future they face.
Part memoir, part social history, part elegy, The Last Landlady
pays tribute to an extraordinary woman and the world she
epitomised.
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