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Howards End is on the Landing: A year of reading from home

By Susan Hill

Book information

Publisher
Profile Books
Year
2010
ISBN
9781846682667, 9781847652638
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2185151 bytes)
Edition
Paperback
Pages
\0
Library
Mobilism
Time added
2021-10-21 04:08:41

Description

Early one autumn afternoon in pursuit of an elusive book on her shelves, Susan Hill encountered dozens of others that she had never read, or forgotten she owned, or wanted to read for a second time. The discovery inspired her to embark on a year-long voyage through her books, forsaking new purchases in order to get to know her own collection again. A book which is left on a shelf for a decade is a dead thing, but it is also a chrysalis, packed with the potential to burst into new life. Wandering through her house that day, Hill's eyes were opened to how much of that life was stored in her home, neglected for years. Howards End is on the Landing charts the journey of one of the nation's most accomplished authors as she revisits the conversations, libraries and bookshelves of the past that have informed a lifetime of reading and writing.

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