Sixty years of home

"Here is Ursula Bloom writing of home as it was in 1900 and as it is today; of the home of her childhood and the various houses and flats in which she has lived since, to say nothing of other people's houses and flats. With her retentive memory and her sense of atmosphere she makes us see and feel the changes that have taken place. We are there, eating the food, watching the servants, deploring the furniture. The grocer calls for his order and is regaled with his own cooking sherry; tomatoes are 1d a pound; a visiting clergyman is given a map of the house because no one can be so rude as to tell him where 'it' is. Nostalgically, laughing, often critical yet sometimes well content with our own brave new world, we saunter with this popular author through sixty years of home."-- Jacket.