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Hancox is the Tudor hall house in rural Sussex where Charlotte Moore grew up, and where she lives today. It's a time warp where little has changed since her family took it on in 1888. They were a diverse family of doctors and soldiers, liberal politicians and educational pioneers. What they all had in common though was a habit of writing everything down and never throwing anything away. Every cupboard and every drawer is crammed with relics of family history – letters, diaries, sketchbooks, photograph albums, even old shopping lists and chequebook stubs – which together constitute a huge archive of Victorian and Edwardian family life containing fascinating stories of love and jealousy, heroism and defeat, riches and poverty as well as snapshots of the wider world beyond of Hastings, London and the empire.
Told with a novelist's vigour, Hancox offers a richly detailed portrait of a vanished way of life: an English country house at the turn of the twentieth century, just before the tragedy of the First World War, with its presiding family, its servants, its farm and its local village.
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Charlotte Moore was born in 1959. She read English at St Anne's College, Oxford, and history of art at Birkbeck College, London. She has published four novels, Promises Past, Martha's Ark, My Sister Victoria and Grandmother's Footsteps; and a highly praised account of her life with her two autistic sons, George and Sam (Penguin, 2005), based on a column she wrote for the Guardian. She still lives at Hancox, together with George and Sam, and her third son, Jake.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is the history of a family which had some famous connections (Florence Nightingale, Barbara Bodichon), but is not especially well-known. If this sounds dull, the book is anything but! Moore has a wonderful and quirky eye for detail, which brings alive all of the varied characters in her family memoir. My own favourites are the magnificently bearded and moustached General Ludlow, who defied modern stereotyping to nurse his poor mad wife with an attentive tenderness rare even among New Men; and Gillachrist, the lively boy, resisting his family's attempts to fit him into an academic mould, who was killed at Ypres. This book is deeply touching as well as extremely funny. Moore writes elegantly and wittily.She has made wonderful use of the letters and clutter left by a family whose eccentricities included an inability to throw anything away! Extremely readable.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a wonderful account of a family through various generations and a terrific piece of social history. Charlotte Moore has succeeded in absorbing and collating a huge amount of research and has produced a fascinating, beautifully written book which wears its considerable scholarship lightly. Please read it.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
A fabulous read, couldn't put it down!! Oh to have lived in a fascinating time warp like that. Great social and local history. How great to have all that material in the house to peruse at your leisure, what a dream of an ancient house.
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very good read
I bought this as I love reading about the history of houses and old families and this didn't disappoint. Read more
Published 2 months ago by shabba
What a lot of detail
How lucky the author is to have such a wealth of diaries and letters to draw on and what a lot of detail there is in this book. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Mungo
Like a Costume drama
I read this book in kindle version and loved it. The people really came to life. I was devastated when I came to the end and found there were 60+ photos and plates which I could... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Skyborry
An English Family
I brought this having read The Nightingales, the story of Florence's extended family and this is a branch of that extended family. Read more
Published 18 months ago by T. Summerfield
Hancox
Thoroughly recommend. I was drawn to it by a) reading the author's perceptive articles in The Guardian about her autistic children and b) it's very near where I live and I had no... Read more
Published 18 months ago by Mrs. E. J. Hamilton
A lost age.
I really enjoyed this book. It gave a very vivid account of a lost age that will help you understand what life pre WW1 in rural Sussex was really like. Read more
Published 19 months ago by bobmar1947
Disappointed
I bought this having read the article in the Daily Mail. The title is Hancox : A House and a Family. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Mrs. C. Higgins
Hancox
Along the same lines as Home by Julie Myerson, but I liked this much better. It is more coherent and we get to know the characters much, much better. Read more
Published 21 months ago by A reader
Wonderful Hancox!
Loved this book! The narrative combines all the building excitement of a novel with much subtly-observed history of the Victorian and Edwardian (and later) periods. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Elizabeth Selka
Untidy House Makes Great History
Hancox is more than just an intelligent, well written, detailed human history of a house. It contains a message for all untidy families who don't like to throw things away. Read more
Published 22 months ago by MiddleAgedMother
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