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The Last Landlady

- An English Memoir
Af: Laura Thompson Engelsk Paperback

The Last Landlady

- An English Memoir
Af: Laura Thompson Engelsk Paperback
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Shortlisted for Harper''s Bazaar Book of the Year 2019

A Guardian, Spectator and Mail on Sunday Book of the Year 2018

''A lyrical portrait of a fast-vanishing way of life . . . Thompson is a terrific writer'' New Statesman

Laura Thompson’s grandmother Violet was one of the great landladies. Born in a London pub, she became the first woman to be given a publican’s licence in her own name and, just as pubs defined her life, she seemed in many ways to embody their essence.

Laura spent part of her childhood in Violet’s Home Counties establishment, mesmerised by her gift for cultivating the mix of cosiness and glamour that defined the pub’s atmosphere, making it a unique reflection of the national character. Her memories of this time are just as intoxicating: beer and ash on the carpets in the morning, the deepening rhythms of mirth at night, the magical brightness of glass behind the bar…

Through them Laura traces the story of the English pub, asking why it has occupied such a treasured position in our culture. But even Violet, as she grew older, recognised that places like hers were a dying breed, and Laura also considers the precarious future they face.

Part memoir, part social history, part elegy, The Last Landlady pays tribute to an extraordinary woman and the world she epitomised.

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Shortlisted for Harper''s Bazaar Book of the Year 2019

A Guardian, Spectator and Mail on Sunday Book of the Year 2018

''A lyrical portrait of a fast-vanishing way of life . . . Thompson is a terrific writer'' New Statesman

Laura Thompson’s grandmother Violet was one of the great landladies. Born in a London pub, she became the first woman to be given a publican’s licence in her own name and, just as pubs defined her life, she seemed in many ways to embody their essence.

Laura spent part of her childhood in Violet’s Home Counties establishment, mesmerised by her gift for cultivating the mix of cosiness and glamour that defined the pub’s atmosphere, making it a unique reflection of the national character. Her memories of this time are just as intoxicating: beer and ash on the carpets in the morning, the deepening rhythms of mirth at night, the magical brightness of glass behind the bar…

Through them Laura traces the story of the English pub, asking why it has occupied such a treasured position in our culture. But even Violet, as she grew older, recognised that places like hers were a dying breed, and Laura also considers the precarious future they face.

Part memoir, part social history, part elegy, The Last Landlady pays tribute to an extraordinary woman and the world she epitomised.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 272
ISBN-13: 9781783528455
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave: 2
ISBN-10: 1783528451
Kategori: England
Udg. Dato: 5 sep 2019
Længde: 20mm
Bredde: 126mm
Højde: 193mm
Forlag: Boundless Publishing Group Ltd
Oplagsdato: 5 sep 2019
Forfatter(e): Laura Thompson
Forfatter(e) Laura Thompson

Kategori England

ISBN-13 9781783528455

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 272

Udgave 2

Længde 20mm

Bredde 126mm

Højde 193mm

Udg. Dato 5 sep 2019

Oplagsdato 5 sep 2019

Forlag Boundless Publishing Group Ltd

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