Peculiar ground / Lucy Hughes-Hallett.
"It is the seventeenth century and a wall is being raised around Wychwood, transforming the great house and its park into a private realm of ornamental lakes, grandiose gardens, and majestic avenues designed by Mr. Norris, a visionary landscaper. In this enclosed world everyone has something to hide after decades of civil war. Dissenters shelter in the woods, lovers rendezvous in secret enclaves, and outsiders--migrants fleeing the plague--find no mercy. Three centuries later, far away in Berlin, another wall is raised, while at Wychwood, an erotic entanglement over one sticky, languorous weekend in 1961 is overshadowed by news of historic change. Young Nell, whose father manages the estate, grows up amid dramatic upheavals as the great house is invaded: a pop festival by the lake, a television crew in the dining room, a Great Storm brewing. In 1989, as the Cold War peters out, a threat from a different kind of conflict reaches Wychwood's walls. Lucy Hughes-Hallett conjures an intricately structured, captivating story that explores the lives of game keepers and witches, agitators and aristocrats; the exuberance of young love and the pathos of aging; and the way those who try to wall others out risk finding themselves walled in. With poignancy and grace, she illuminates a place where past and present are inextricably linked by stories, legends, and history--and by one patch of peculiar ground." -- Amazon.com.
Record details
- ISBN: 0062684191
- ISBN: 9780062684196
- Physical Description: xi, 446 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Originally published in Great Britain in 2017 by 4th Estate." -- Title page verso. |
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Subject: | Country homes > England > Fiction. Manors > England > Fiction. Great Britain > History > Fiction. |
Genre: | Historical fiction. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Cape Girardeau Public Library | HUG (Text) | 33042004527985 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Livingston County Library - Main Library | HUGHES-HALLETT (Text) | 2601819553 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Scenic Regional-Warrenton | FIC HUG (Text) | 3005713806 | Fiction | Available | - |
St. Joseph - Downtown Library | F HUG (Text) | 32002003433396 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
St. Joseph - East Hills Library | F HUG (Text) | 32002003763230 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Trails Regional-Lexington | FIC Hug (Text) | 2204706655 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Webster County-Main Library-Marshfield | HISTORICAL FICTION HughesHallett (Text) | 3991099551 | * Adult Historical Fiction | Available | - |