A Home for All Seasons

The author investigates the history of the house he and his husband have bought in a Herefordshire village. And the house is pretty interesting and worth investigating. He puts it all into context with local history, art history, music history, literary history, natural history, and probably some more histories! And that should all be interesting but I found it wandered too far away from the bits I personally found interesting and some of it rather blurred for me. The personal stories of Herefordshire and their life in and around the house were more engaging than the endless paintings. I like art, I like writing on art history less I guess. Possibly there were just too many subjects packed into the book and the house felt forgotten about for long stretches, or those stretches might just have felt long.

It’s seemed to take me an awfully long time to get through the book which is usually a measure that I’m not really enjoying it that much, but I got it finished so there you go.