Rural hours1917. Virginia Woolf arrives at Asheham, on the Sussex Downs, immobilized by nervous exhaustion and creative block. 1930. Feeling jittery about her writing career, Sylvia Townsend Warner spots a modest workman's cottage for sale on the Dorset coast. 1941. Rosamond Lehmann settles in a Berkshire village, seeking a lovers' retreat, a refuge from war, and a means of becoming 'a writer again'. 'Rural Hours' tells the story of three very different women,

With their high birth and unrivalled beauty

including a host of River Cafe classics that have been specially adapted for new cooks

'The low points in life so often produce the most keenly felt and best loved songs

three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' shopping

Sharing his views on the greatest matches he has played in or enjoyed as a fan

Bringer of night in Ancient Egypt

The story of Huck's escape from his brutal father and the relationship that grows between him and Jim

But amid the hysteria

of love so absolute

quotations

paper-makers and library founders

and certainly not gods with no understanding of the hard