The Crichel Boys
Scenes from England's Last Literary Salon
$40.14
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
14 June 2022
Summary
In 1945, Eddy Sackville-West, Desmond Shawe-Taylor and Eardley Knollys - writers for the New Statesman and a National Trust administrator - purchased Long Crichel House, an old rectory with no electricity and an inadequate water supply. In this improbable place, the last English literary salon began.
Quieter and less formal than the famed London literary salons, Long Crichel became an idiosyncratic experiment in communal living. Sackville-West, Shawe-Taylor and Knollys - late…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472132482 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472132483 |
| Author: | Simon Fenwick |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Constable |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 14 June 2022 |
| Weight: | 312g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 124mm x 28mm |
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Critics Review
Fascinating – Laura Freeman * The Times *
Very entertaining … the preservation of old houses, a cause with which many of the leading characters were involved one way or another, is skilfully used as a running theme in a book that, with a fine balance between nostalgia and clear-sightedness, commemorates a privileged world long since vanished. – Peter Parker * Spectator *
Highly evocative … a portrait of an enchanted world – Ysenda Maxtone Graham * Daily Mail *
The Crichel boys … left behind merely a memory of charm, kindness and generosity, to which Fenwick pays a tender tribute * Financial Times *
A rich, luscious account of a postwar Britain that often gets lost * Mail on Sunday *
Fenwick, it must be said, is very much at home in this somewhat rarefied milieu, writes perceptively about the quartet’s
achievements and is sensitive to some of the problems caused by having four neurotic personalities intermittently at large under a single roof
Absorbing new history – Alexander Larman * Observer *
Fenwick gives us some fascinating vignettes of the often downplayed cultural life of post-war Britain * The Lady *
About The Author
Simon Fenwick
Simon Fenwick is an archivist and author. He has worked on the papers of both Paddy Leigh Fermor and William Wordsworth, as well as for various country houses, private individuals and charities. He has also written for The Times, Telegraph, Independent and Guardian as well as for art magazines. His latest book is Joan: Beauty, Rebel, Muse: The Remarkable Life of Joan Leigh Fermor.
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