Restoration Heart: A Memoir

Author:   William Cash
Publisher:   Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN:  

9781472132185


Pages:   416
Publication Date:   10 September 2019
Format:   Hardback
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'Breathtaking untold story . . . riotously colourful' Mail on Sunday 'I read most of it in one exciting sitting. It is brilliant, gripping and sad' Harry Mount Restoration Heart is a story of love, double divorce and redemption. It is a biography of the heart, and of a house. When William Cash suffers a post-divorce, mid-life breakdown, aged 43, life seemed bleak - but things were about to change. Like William himself, his old Shropshire family house Upton Cressett was in as much in need of being rescued and 'fixed up' as its owner. As William embarks on re-building his life and ruin of a country house, he starts looking again for love. But money, patience and the likelihood of ever finding family happiness soon start to run out. Drawing on his haul of letters written to various wives, fiancees and girlfriends - all potential third wives - the book follows Cash's search for a chatelaine for Upton Cressett. Restoration Heart is a tempestuous, Gulliver-like voyage of the heart with a colourful cast of figures including Tom Wolfe, Jay McInerney, Margaret Thatcher, Elizabeth Hurley, David Hockney, Piers Morgan, an American singer legend cousin and, most dramatically, future prime minister Boris Johnson. Hilarious and poignant, this 'restore-a-wreck' memoir is an account of how an Englishman is rescued by love, architecture and beauty. The memoir also holds up a dark lens to the Bonfire of the Vanities generation that Cash was a member of at Cambridge. The story reveals how a broken man can become completely transformed - both emotionally and imaginatively - by a building and its surrounding landscape. During the four year refurbishment, the house's reclamation becomes inexorably linked with his own re-birth and salvation before he finally marries for the third time and gets to live in his family house. This is not a misery-memoir; it is an uplifting - albeit tempestuous - Gulliver-like biography of the heart with an ancient Elizabethan house as the writer's Arcadian safe house and source of salvation.

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Author:   William Cash
Publisher:   Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:   Constable
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 4.00cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.720kg
ISBN:  

9781472132185


ISBN 10:   1472132181
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   10 September 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us.

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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 * Recommended * Historic House * Cash emerges as a flamboyant character . . . a classically English romantic . . . Cash's transition is genuinely endearing * The Art Newspaper * I'm very much enjoying Restoration Heart * John Challis, aka Boyce in Only Fools and Horses and restore-a-wreck author * A very amusing and candid memoir * Jeremy Musson, architectural historian and broadcaster * Recommended . . . unexpected poignancy * New Statesman * Hilarious . . . Restoration Heart conveys the transformative power of good architecture . . . this book is one to be treasured * The New Criterion * I read most of it in one exciting sitting. It's brilliant, gripping and sad. The personal romantic memoir is terrific A funny and unexpectedly touching book * Country Life * An endearing story of rebuilding and restoring * You magazine * This entertaining, often poignant, book is straight out of Waugh or Wodehouse * Catholic Herald * An excellent memoir * Nicholas Coleridge * 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 * A touching, entertaining memoir which traces the twin track restoration of a broken heart and dilapidated Shropshire Manor * The Tablet * Breathtaking untold story . . . riotously colourful * Mail on Sunday *


Breathtaking untold story . . . riotously colourful * Mail on Sunday *


A funny and unexpectedly touching book * Country Life * An endearing story of rebuilding and restoring * You magazine * This entertaining, often poignant, book is straight out of Waugh or Wodehouse * Catholic Herald * An excellent memoir * Nicholas Coleridge * 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 * A touching, entertaining memoir which traces the twin track restoration of a broken heart and dilapidated Shropshire Manor * The Tablet * Breathtaking untold story . . . riotously colourful * Mail on Sunday *


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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.

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