Ashenden: A Novel

A novel about people, a country estate, and living history The house contains time. Its walls hold stories. Births and deaths, comings and goings, people and events passing through. . . . For now, however, it lies suspended in a kind of emptiness, as if it has fallen asleep or someone has put it under a spell. This silence wont last cant last. Something will have to be done. When brother and sister Charlie and Ros discover that they have inherited their aunts grand English country house, they must decide if they should sell it. As they survey the effects of time on the estates architectural treasures, a narrative spanning two and a half centuries unfolds. We meet those who built the house, lived in it and loved it, worked in it, and those who would subvert it to their own ends.