Christina Hardyment is a writer and journalist with a special interest in literary geography and domestic history. She is the author of Writing the Thames (Bodleian Library Publishing, 2016).
'In this collection of 20 sparkling mini-essays, Christina
Hardyment sets out to show how bricks and mortar make compelling
fictional characters just as surely as skin and bone. Skilfully
deploying biography, close reading and psychogeography, Hardyment
creates a series of charming house portraits, starting with Horace
Walpole's gothic castle of Otranto (1764) and winding up with the
equally crenellated Hogwarts, courtesy of JK Rowling
(1997-2007).'
*The Guardian*
'Novel Houses is a lively literary gazetteer to great imaginative
homes…If you like nuggets about niches and gleanings about gables,
you'll love this book.'
*The Times*
'An enjoyable and nicely weighted tour of legendary buildings from
English and American fiction, with Hardyment as a knowledgeable and
(thankfully) unstuffy guide.'
*Irish Times*
'This is a delightful, varied and perceptive book, full of insights
that entice one to read or re-read the novels. It opens a fresh way
of looking at fiction and sends one back to other titles one loves
where houses are characters alongside people.'
*Church Times*
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