The Town House, Norah Lofts
The Town House, Norah Lofts
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The Town House

Author: Norah Lofts

Narrator: Juliet Prague, Martyn Read

Unabridged: 17 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Soundings

Published: 09/01/2014

Synopsis

“It was in the first week of October in the year 1391 that I first came face to face with the man who owned me… the man whose lightest word was to us, his villeins, weightier than the King’s law or the edicts of our Holy Father…” So began the story of Martin Reed – a serf whose resentment of the automatic rule of his feudal lord finally flared into open defiance. Encouraged by the woman he loved, Martin Reed began a new life – a life which was to culminate in the building of the House, and the founding of the dynasty who were to live there.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Werner

Note, Oct. 21, 2019: I edited this just now to correct a minor typo. This book, which I've now reread as an adult, was my first introduction to the work of a writer who soon became a favorite of mine. (1963 is a rough guess now as to the date of my first reading, but it was before I turned 14.) There......more

Goodreads review by ~☆~Autumn NOT RECEIVING NOTIFICATIONS)

This is one of my favorite books. I just finished it for the third time. I am so lucky as I forgot large parts of it so got to enjoy it all over again. I sure feel sad for Nicholas at the end. I don't recall having that feeling before about him. Before I felt she was lucky to escape him. Its strange......more

Goodreads review by Mela

Thoughts walk in uninvited. Reading great historical novels written e.g. by E. Chadwick one can sometimes almost forget that there were serfs, starvings, minstrels and so on in the medieval. Imagine a young smith (a serf) who fell in love with a daughter of the shepherd. They had to have permissio......more

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