<b>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. </b>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.<i>Love in Old Age</i> 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
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<B>Lucy Hunter invites us to join her on a personal journey to the places and spaces that she loves best, and which inspire her work as a creative floral artist and garden designer.</B><BR><BR>She explores the drama of the mountains,...
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The sequel to the hugely enjoyable and poignant childhood memoir by Hunter Davies - The Co-op's Got Bananas!
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Happy Old Me is a moving yet uplifting account of one year in Hunter Davies' life, navigating bereavement and finding hope in the future.
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''I don''t know any tract of land in which in so narrow a compass may be found an equal variety of sublime and beautiful features''. So said the poet Wordsworth of England''s Lake District, an area as rich in cultural...
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