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Gillian Tindall is a master of miniaturist history, well known for the quality of her writing and the scrupulousness of her research; she makes a handful of people, a few locations or a dramatic event stand for the much larger picture, as her seminal book The Fields Beneath, approached the history of Kentish Town, London. She has also written on London's Southbank (The House by the Thames), on southern English counties (Three Houses, Many Lives), and the Left Bank (Footprints in Paris), amongst other locations, as well as biography and prize-winning novels. Her latest book, The Tunnel through Time, traced the history of the Crossrail route, the forthcoming 'Elizabeth' line. She has lived in the same London house for over fifty years.
From seven brief mid-19th century letters found in an empty house in a French village, Tindall has conjured up the woman to whom they were written, her close family; and a whole community in the Berry. She describes with equal grace and skill how the village emerged from an almost trackless forest into the modern age, and brings back to life once distant, but actual, villagers and their ways of work and rest, in a fascinating social history that is also a powerful re-creation of folk memory. There is no condescension, nothing bogus: a most genuine and lively book. (Kirkus UK)
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