House of Windows, Alexia Casale
House of Windows, Alexia Casale
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House of Windows

Author: Alexia Casale

Narrator: Stewart Crank

Unabridged: 10 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/22/2022


Synopsis

"The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us."—Robert Louis Stevenson

Nick hates it when people call him a genius. Sure, he's going to Cambridge University aged fifteen, but he says that's just because he works hard. And, secretly, he only works hard to get some kind of attention from his workaholic father.

Not that his strategy is working.

When he arrives at Cambridge, he finds the work hard and socializing even harder. Until, that is, he starts to cox for the college rowing crew and all hell breaks loose . . .

About Alexia Casale

A British-American citizen of Italian heritage, Alexia Casale is an author, teacher, and writing consultant. After studying psychology then educational technology at Cambridge University (England), she moved to New York. There she worked on the Tony Award-winning 2004 Broadway revival of "La Cage aux Folles," working with legendary composer Jerry Herman and multiple Tony Award winners Harvey Fierstein, director Jerry Zaks, and choreographer Jerry Mitchell. She has family ties in California and New York, where all four of her paternal great-grandparents arrived from Eastern Europe and were processed at Ellis Island.

After returning to the UK, Alexia completed a PhD and teaching qualification. In between, she worked as a West End script-critic, box-office manager for a music festival, and executive editor of a human rights journal. She loves cats, collects glass animals, and has a particular fondness for medieval sleeves.


Reviews

Goodreads review by jov on July 09, 2021

Honestly, the first half of the book bored me a lot, but i pushed on, and finally saw some stuff that appealed to me, particularly the relationship Nick and Tim shares. But other than that, i felt that the descriptions were...too much? Felt a little info-dumpy, and a lot of the descriptions, especia......more

Goodreads review by Holly on September 13, 2015

Alexia is one of the most sophisticated writers on the UKYA scene. Her prose are just...indescribably beautiful.......more

Goodreads review by Marisa on October 31, 2016

Sad to say I actually found this book terribly boring. Completely over the top on the constantly waxing lyrical about her obsession with Cambridge. The one redeeming feature was the ending which I found quite moving.......more

Goodreads review by Poppy on January 15, 2022

Me at the start of this book: don’t get invested Me three hours later: *sobbing* fuck I’m invested......more

Goodreads review by Michelle (Fluttering Butterflies) on August 10, 2015

Loved it. Loved Nick and all the characters and how much this book was about belonging and about family. I really loved House of Windows by Alexia Casale. It is a book I'd been looking forward to reading very much, ever since Alexia Casale's previous book, The Bone Dragon, swept me away and broke my......more