Laughter On The Stairs (Beverley Nichols Trilogy Book 2)
Editorial Reviews
Southern Living Garden Guide 1999
Youll find laughter on the stairs and everywhere else Nichols takes you as he renovates his old home and garden.
Review
Michele Slung Victoria : For Beverley Nichols, this is a season of revival, and readers can be grateful for the chance once again to cultivate his acquaintance.
Ursula Buchan Daily Telegraph (London) : The charm of Merry Hall, Laughter on the Stairs (mostly about the house) and Sunlight on the Lawn is undeniable, a mixture of the lyrical, the teasing, the understatedly witty and the self-mockingly camp.
SciTech Book News : Nichols, a prolific writer best known for his gardening books, transforms the large and small happenings of a sleepy British village and country estate into mock high drama, retelling events such as a burglary, a ghost sighting, and home and garden renovations with humor and insight.
Verlyn Klinkenborg New York Times Book Review : [Nichols] the very model of gardening insouciance,... wrote at least once about everything and... is nearly the Bertie Wooster of gardening, and I say nearly only because some would consider it an insult to be called the Bertie Wooster of anything.
Southern Living : You'll find laughter on the stairs and everywhere else Nichols takes you as he renovates his old home and garden.
Traditional Gardening : A marvelously hilarious insight into people, plants and places... If you have ever renovated an old house or garden, you'll love these books.
Bob Cowden Pacific Horticulture : Be prepared. Beverley Nichols' garden books are part PG Wodehouse and part James Barrie - full of hilarious Jeeves-like characters and events, with moments of Peter Pan magic.
Rosemary Read American Rhododendron Society Journal : Find a comfortable chair, relax, and enjoy the Nichols' flights of literary fancy but be warned, once started, his books are hard to put down.
Diane Kostial McGuire Journal of the New England Garden History Society : The Nichols books are gardening classics; after reading one volume, you will want to read the others, so it would be best to buy all three at the outset.
Laughter On The Stairs (Beverley Nichols Trilogy Book 2)
Laughter On The Stairs (Beverley Nichols Trilogy Book 2),Beverley Nichols,Roy C. Dicks,Timber Press,0881924601,1899-,20th century,Authors, English,Biography,England,Essays,Fiction,Gardeners,Gardening,Gardening / Horticulture,General,Homes and haunts,Nichols, Beverley,,Popular English Fiction,Surrey,Gardens (descriptions, history etc),Nichols, Beverley,Other prose: from c 1900 -
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