Castles In The Air, Judy Corbett
Castles In The Air, Judy Corbett
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Castles In The Air
The Restoration Adventures of Two Young Optimists and a Crumbling Old Mansion

Author: Judy Corbett

Narrator: Charlotte Strevens

Unabridged: 8 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ebury Digital

Published: 12/23/2010


Synopsis

Castles in the Air is a beautifully written, autobiographical story of rescuing an ancient mansion. Gwydir Castle was inhabited by ravers and rats until Judy Corbett and her husband Peter Welford found and acquired this 500-year-old house mouldering in the foothills of Snowdonia. Despite the toads, strange smells and squatters, they decided to mortgage themselves to the hilt to bring the castle back to life.

This is an evocatively written and genuinely moving book and is infused with an extraordinary sense of place. The couple's adventures in a gothic wonderland lead them through plots both supernatural and historical. In a museum storeroom in a Bronx warehouse they find a missing room, in the castle's Solar Tower the ghost of a young woman appears and from the far edges of the woods a silent man called Sven emerges to befriend the couple and their beloved castle.

For everyone who has ever wanted to live in a glorious house or escape from the mundanity of life - Castles in the Air is pure magic.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeanne on March 15, 2017

Part of the reason I love gothic novels is because there is a wonderfully old house, usually majestic and always somewhat spooky connected to the heroine and the story. When I saw the book Judy Corbetts' non-fiction Castle in the Air I knew that I had to read it. What could be better for a gothic lo......more

Goodreads review by Trish on January 16, 2010

"Restoring the sixteenth-century Gwydir Castle" on the back of this book caught my interest as I've so enjoyed reading Sharon Kay Penman's Welsh HF books. There's a "romantic aura" to the idea of actually buying and restoring a "crumbling old stone mansion". Also, it brought back memories of my firs......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on January 06, 2013

I have read this book twice, and am about to read it again as part of my book club. I had the pleasure of visiting Gwydir in October of 2010, and I simply can't wait to go back again. This will be the first time I've read it since having been there, so I imagine it will have a very different feel to......more