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Seduces on so many levels, most immediately through its photography page after page of serene interiors interspersed with close-ups....Yet this is not solely a picture book. [Stockley's] relaxed text combines a portrait of each house and its owners with local history, practical information and decorative tips...and she's a fount of knowledge on the quirks and tricks, as well as the economic and health-giving benefits of inhabiting a little-altered Regency dwelling that was once a wreck. -- Mary Miers * Country Life *

An exquisite celebration of period patina. * Sunday Times * Seduces on so many levels, most immediately through its photography page after page of serene interiors interspersed with close-ups....Yet this is not solely a picture book. [Stockley's] relaxed text combines a portrait of each house and its owners with local history, practical information and decorative tips...and she's a fount of knowledge on the quirks and tricks, as well as the economic and health-giving benefits of inhabiting a little-altered Regency dwelling that was once a wreck. -- Mary Miers * Country Life * Will be on all the smart coffee tables this Christmas. * The Times *

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Philippa Stockley is an award-winning journalist renowned for her writing on London architecture and interiors, and a critically acclaimed novelist whose latest novel, Black Lily (Pimpernel, 2018), is set in seventeenth-century London. Stockley holds MAs in art history from the Courtauld Institute of Art and in English from Oxford University. Charlie Hopkinson is an award-winning photographer of interiors, gardens and portraits, whose latest book, Head Gardeners, also for Pimpernel, won the Garden Media Guildís Inspirational Book of the Year award (2017).

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