The Easternmost House
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Sandstone Press Ltd
Published:25th Apr '19
£9.99
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Full UK publicity campaign by Ruth Killick Publicity. The Times Nature Book of the Year.
The Easternmost House is a memoir which describes a year of life on a crumbling cliff at the easternmost edge of England, all year round and in all weathers. It is a meditation on nature, on coastal erosion, and on the changing seasons.
Juliet Blaxland is an architect, author, cartoonist and illustrator. She grew up in a remote part of Suffolk and now lives on the cliff edge of the easternmost part of England.
She is the author and illustrator of ten children’s books. Her cartoon series, Life in a Listed Building, was published monthly in the Prince of Wales’s architecture magazine Perspectives and won a prize at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. The Crowood Press published Nimrod, a Cavalry Black, in 2015, and The House Pony: an ABC of Horsemanship, was published in 2018. She is also a prize-winning photographer.
A beautiful book, eloquent and evocative. Lyrical, poignant and witty, this book is a moving testament to a still enormously vibrant but vanishing time, place and way of life.
I feel like a stalker, but reading Juliet Blaxland’s The Easternmost House, I got straight into my car and drove over to stare at her home. Her wonderful book describes living on the most extreme outpost of Suffolk’s coast of erosion.
* The Times *Blaxland’s writing is evocative, whether she is writing about the roar of a storm, jugs of homemade Pimm’s or the attempt to create a crop circle. She has a deep love of the coastal landscape she inhabits.
* Halfman, Halfbook *Brilliant memoir about nature, landscape, food and the disconnect between town and country.
* The Sunday Times *The author writes beautifully about her life in this small extremity... a hymn to a simpler life, one lived more in tune with the rhythms of the natural world, with its wonders and its perils.
* Country Life *Prose that flows effortlessly with a wry turn of phrase at every corner. Plus, she’s bloody funny. In The Easternmost House you read the sound of her voice, and so the book rattles along like a good’un.
* Caught by the River *Destined to be a 21st Century classic. Just brilliant.
* John Lewis-Stempel, author of The Running Hare *A marvellous evocation of the Suffolk coast. It made me want to jump on the next train out of London.
* Andrew Gimson, author of Gimson's Kings & Quee- Winner of The Times Book of the Year and The Times Nature Book of the Year 2019 (UK)
- Short-listed for The Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize 2019 (UK)
- Short-listed for East Anglian Book Awards 2019 (UK)
ISBN: 9781912240548
Dimensions: 196mm x 130mm x 20mm
Weight: 211g
208 pages