Ashenden

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Spring 2010 & when Charlie & Ros inherit Ashenden from their aunt Reggie a decision must be made. The beautiful eighteenth-century house set in acres of English countryside is in need of serious repair. Do they try to keep it in the family or will they have to sell? Moving back in time in an interwoven narrative spanning two & a half centuries we witness the house from its beginnings through to the present day. Along the way we meet those who have built the house lived in it & loved it; those who have worked in it & those who would subvert it to their own ends including Mrs Trimble housekeeper to the rackety spendthrift Mores; the wealthy Henderson family in their Victorian heyday; six-year-old Pudge; Walter Beckmann prisoner in its grounds; & Reggie & Hugo agents of its postwar revival. Through good times & bad the better we get to know the house the more we care about its survival. A novel about people architecture & living history Ashenden" is an evocative & allusive reflection on England & its past."