Overview
Before #housebeforespouse, before Tiny Houses were a thing, even before DIY'ers got hooked on HGTV, Kate Whouley bought a fixerupper three-room cottage on Cape Cod. Not yet thirty, and running a small business from home, she began dreaming of an office of her own. But years would pass before a headline in the weekly Pennysaver sparked plans for an unconventional (and maybe even affordable) addition, and Kate's year-long domestic adventure would spark a book. In Cottage For Sale, Must Be Moved, Kate and her bossy feline sidekick, Egypt, encounter cranky town officials, a scruffy building-mover of few words, a construction crew of fulltime firefighters, an electrician who is at heart, a surfer-dude, and a swoon-worthy mason who illuminates the history of concrete. Captivating readers for almost two decades, the memoir Anna Quindlen called ""a pitch-perfect description of both small-town life and personal anticipation"" now includes a bonus chapter by the author that catches readers up on the cottage, Kate, and the current (just as bossy) Cat-in-Charge.
Full Product Details
Author: Kate Whouley
Publisher: Sea Crow Press
Imprint: Sea Crow Press
Edition: 2nd Twentieth Anniversary ed.
Dimensions:
Width: 13.30cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 20.30cm
Weight: 0.404kg
ISBN: 9781961864108
ISBN 10: 196186410
Pages: 356
Publication Date: 15 October 2024
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
and to the natural world with a focus on positive change and great ""...a pitch-perfect description of both small-town life and personal anticipation...told in a voice of such good humor and thoughtful humanity... It is not simply about the marriage of a small house and smaller cottage, but about the hope we all find in home. I loved Cottage For Sale."" -Anna Quindlen ""... a cast of characters that range from interesting to eccentric, a series of misadventures that might have come from a comic novel, and a narrative style that makes you keep turning the pages. It's one of those books in which the author has taken something personal and made it universal."" -Booklist ""Whouley's gentle memoir...deftly explores the themes of independence, pride of place and loss..."" - The New York Times ""...an almost Holy Grail quest... highly entertaining."" -The Wall Street Journal ""100% original and 100% enjoyable."" -Book-of-the Month-Club News
"and to the natural world with a focus on positive change and great ""...a pitch-perfect description of both small-town life and personal anticipation...told in a voice of such good humor and thoughtful humanity... It is not simply about the marriage of a small house and smaller cottage, but about the hope we all find in home. I loved Cottage For Sale."" -Anna Quindlen ""... a cast of characters that range from interesting to eccentric, a series of misadventures that might have come from a comic novel, and a narrative style that makes you keep turning the pages. It's one of those books in which the author has taken something personal and made it universal."" -Booklist ""Whouley's gentle memoir...deftly explores the themes of independence, pride of place and loss..."" - The New York Times ""...an almost Holy Grail quest... highly entertaining."" -The Wall Street Journal ""100% original and 100% enjoyable."" -Book-of-the Month-Club News"
Author Information
Kate Whouley is a contributing editor at Yankee magazine and the 2012 recipient of the New England Book Award in nonfiction for Remembering the Music, Forgetting the Words. A longtime designer of independent bookstores, Kate currently directs the MFA program in creative writing at Bay Path University, and serves as the editor of Multiplicity, the literary magazine of the Bay Path MFA. Kate lives and writes on Cape Cod in a cottage that is no longer on the move.
