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  • Daphne du Maurier: The King's General
  • Deborah Lawrenson: The Secretary
  • Richard Cohen: How to Write like Tolstoy
  • Adrian Tinniswood: Noble Ambitions
  • Adrian Tinniswood: The Power and the Glory
  • Martin Williams: The King is Dead, Long Live the King
  • Gavin Plumley: A Home for all Seasons
  • Robert Harris: Precipice
  • Nigel Slater: A Thousand Feasts
  • Joan Aiken: Tales of London Town
  • Alan Connor: 188 Words for Rain
  • Ben Robinson: English Villages: An Extraordinary Journey through Time

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Fran H-B

Living not too far from Monks House I have visited there several times. The writing hut draws me. You look through a glass window to the desk; see her glasses, her folders neatly lined up. Not hard to imagine VW has just gone for a walk in the garden. This book is definately high on my Christmas Wish List!

Cornflower

The pictures in the book do make it look as though VW has just stepped out for a moment!

Ruth

Hello! Do you know the original source of the quote from VW about her desk? I'd like to track it down. Thanks.

Cornflower

Yes! According to the book's footnotes, you should find those lines in "A Change of Perspective: The Letters of Virginia Woolf Vol. III 1923-1928" edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann, (no. 1921).

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