Sunlight on the Lawn
by Beverley Nichols
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Editions of Sunlight on the Lawn
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ISBN |
Binding/Format Hardcover |
Publisher Timber Pr |
Date 1999 |
Price $13.26 |
 NEW |
Publisher Notes
Sunlight on the Lawn brings to a close Beverley Nichols's delightful Merry Hall trilogy describing the renovation of his rundown Georgian mansion and its garden. This new edition boasts a foreword by Bryan Connon, Beverley Nichols's biographer, and an exhaustive bibliography of all Beverley Nichols's works, a feature that will prove invaluable to the Nichols enthusiast. William McLaren again graces the text with unforgettable illustrations. Previous volumes in this classic series are Merry Hall and Laughter on the Stairs.
Excerpt
If you had been able to float over Meadowstream on a magic carpet you would have seen a patchwork of fields and woods, ribboned by winding lanes converging on the village green; and this patchwork would be spread between the downs to the south and the dark mass of Ladslove Hill to the west. You would also have seen, I regret to say, an advancing fringe of red brick villas, still distant, but coming near enough to spread a certain amount of alarm and despondency to the older residents. We will avert our eyes from them. They need never trouble us at Merry Hall, because we are grand enough to be surrounded by our own land, and in any case we have planted such vast quantities of evergreens that nothing short of the Empire State Building could ever cast an alien shadow over our privacy.
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