If you like old houses as I do, you'll love this book. Norah Lofts always delivers on story, too, as well as historical accuracy. This book takes you from the house being built all through the others who live in it up to the present day, or the seventies anyway!/5(69). Bless This House. by. Norah Lofts. · Rating details · ratings · 37 reviews. The fortunes of a beautiful Elizabethan house called Merravay, built in Suffolk for a queen to sleep in, then loved and hated through four centuries/5(). · 'Bless This House' Trivia Quiz Category: Norah Lofts Quiz #, 15 trivia questions, rated Average. Author: ArleneRimmer. One house, two families, one book, many stories. Merravay was built in the Old Queen's time, and this book tells the tale until the second Queen Elizabeth's time. Norah Lofts Trivia. Last Updated: Times.
I cannot understand why more of this prolific author's stories aren't reprinted-for sheer storytelling and charachters that are true to life, Norah Lofts is timeless. Bless This House is the chronicle of several generations of households witnessed by an English home from the time it was built through the past century.I believe that this book. I had a massive Norah Lofts binge over Christmas. Lofts is a deeply unfashionable writer who people in the know keep saying should be rediscovered. Alison Weir has been plugging away at it, and, brilliantly, was instrumental in getting some Lofts books back into print, while the availability of ebooks and the possibility of finding out-of-print books on ABE or Amazon means that there's never. Norah Lofts Rules! With all due respect to two of the previous reviewers of Bless This House, if you don't like a Norah Lofts story you don't know what a good story is. If you like historical fiction and would like to time travel you can't beat Ms. Lofts stories. I highly recommend any of her books. 6 people found this helpful.
Many of her novels, including her Suffolk Trilogy, follow the history of a specific house and the resid Norah Ethel Robinson Lofts Jorisch (27 August –10 September ) was a 20th century best-selling British author. The beautiful house was built for a pirate rewarded by Good Queen Bess for the plunder that he brought home. But tragedy was born within its walls before Thomas Rowhedge even took possession and its memory remained in an icy atmosphere of despair by the window seat in the hall. It was home to a witch who could charm animals and a ghost who challenged everything but true love. Norah Lofts. out of 5 stars. Paperback. $ Bless This House. [Historical novel about the stately house, Merravay,built in in England]. Norah [British author] () Lofts.
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