Restoration Heart

Breathtaking untold story … riotously colourful * Mail on Sunday *A touching, entertaining memoir which traces the twin track restoration of a broken heart and dilapidated Shropshire Manor * The Tablet *Immensely readable … Laugh-out-loud funny, Restoration Heart is a delightful true story of love, hope and redemption by one of the foremost society writers of our day * Tatler *An excellent memoir * Nicholas Coleridge *This entertaining, often poignant, book is straight out of Waugh or Wodehouse * Catholic Herald *An endearing story of rebuilding and restoring * You magazine *A funny and unexpectedly touching book * Country Life *I read most of it in one exciting sitting. It’s brilliant, gripping and sad. The personal romantic memoir is terrificHilarious … Restoration Heart conveys the transformative power of good architecture … this book is one to be treasured * The New Criterion *Recommended … unexpected poignancy * New Statesman *A very amusing and candid memoir * Jeremy Musson, architectural historian and broadcaster *I’m very much enjoying Restoration Heart * John Challis, aka Boyce in Only Fools and Horses and restore-a-wreck author *Cash emerges as a flamboyant character … a classically English romantic … Cash’s transition is genuinely endearing * The Art Newspaper *Recommended * Historic House *Intriguing … wittily recounted and moving … This book will surely give heart to anyone embarking on a seemingly Sisyphean restoration job, be it of the house or of the soul * The Lady *Cash, who has often written of society and scandal, is adept at setting dramatic scenes throughout his memoir. Yet there’s another layer to Restoration Heart-an acute literary sense … Restoration Heart is buoyed by Cash’s self-effacing humor. He’s a romantic when it comes to love, and also writing * The Millions *

William Cash is the author of a Hollywood memoir and a biography of Graham Greene, The Third Woman. He writes for the Sunday Times Magazine, Telegraph Magazine and New Statesman. He is a two-time winner of Editor of the Year at the PPA awards and is chairman of the Catholic Herald.