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Culminating a distinguished career spanning more than sixty years, historian Gillian Tindall has written a novel as her final statement. In an astonishing feat of literary imagination, she projects herself back onto one of her forebears to conjure a compelling vision of 17th century England.
The protagonist is a Huguenot metal founder, an occupation that leads him from the Sussex Weald to the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, and beyond to the North Country. While in London, he lives above a coffee house in Brick Lane and the book conjures a vivid evocation of Spitalfields at the time of the Huguenots.
This is a hymn to those who pass through life not leaving a trace, except in the hearts of those into whose lives they have been cast.
‘Gillian Tindall's JOURNAL OF A MAN UNKNOWN is a novel of rare distinction. Tindall's voice is richly her own: tender but unsentimental and lit by intimate knowledge of her chosen world.’ Colin Thubron
Soft cover edition of 304 pages 111 x 181mm
Gillian Tindall is the virtuoso of history in microcosm, celebrated for the quality of her writing and scrupulousness of her research. She employs a single location, a dramatic event, a collection of objects or a handful of characters and reveals how they stand for the larger picture, as in her seminal books 'The Fields Beneath' on the history of Kentish Town and 'The House by the Thames' on the history of the South Bank. Living in the same London house for over fifty years, she has written social history, biography and prizewinning novels.
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