This came under the radar, another big book and big theme...the history and psychology of the homes that we build and inhabit and our private lives in them. Looking forward to this.

(24/01/16) Bryson doesn’t disappoint in this most ambitious of books; a history of the private life of a house. The book hangs around the desire to understand the parsonage built for Reverend Thomas Marsham in the quiet mid-Norfolk countryside in 1851; why it looks like it does, the building materials, the function and names of all the rooms, but also the prevailing changes in local & international events, industry & agriculture at the time.

BB leaves no obscure stone unturned, including the food and spices we eat, the animals that inhabit our homes, the industrial revolution, powdered wigs, architectural styles, the birth of telephony, concrete, forks, cotton & plate glass etc. etc. It’s a big read, suitable (in my case) for a holiday, but endlessly fascinating.

I will be leaving a small parcel of books in town; on the free bookshelf in Caffe Nero (or somewhere else), at 9 o'clock (or some other time).

If you find this, welcome to bookcrossing :)

ps. we booklovers and sometime releasers have a monthly meeting at Coffee Link on the quay every month, 2nd second Saturday at 12:00 noon, all welcome.