Ashenden
Format: kindle
ASIN: B008243YVI
Publish date: June 28th 2012
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 354
Edition language: English
The only thing that I can say about this book was that it was a series of short stories with a house as the central character. I am still baffled by the Downton Abbey reference unless it was done to "market" the book to garner more sales because, in my humble opinion, there was nothing DA about this...
I received a free copy of this book through Goodreads First Reads.What a beautiful story. It is more series of short stories connected by the common thread of the house Ashenden. I really liked the way this was written. It had a wonderful feel to it and reminded me very much of Downton Abbey.I loved...
Ashenden is a charming historical read that concerns itself with the generations of owners and servants living in a manor house built in the English countryside in 1775. Beginning in the present when siblings Charlie and Ros inherit Ashenden upon the death of their great aunt, it meanders back to wh...
Have this out from the library, but taking a closer look at the reviews mentioning it's more a collection of stories about a house, tells me it isn't going to be a good fit for me. Moving on, life is too short.
When Charlie and Ros inherit their aunt's elaborate eighteenth century English country mansion, they're torn on what to do with it. The reader is then flung back in time over the years to experience, in clip-show fashion, the ups and downs of the house's historical past. Each chapter builds anothe...
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