Lucy Hughes-Hallett
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Peculiar Ground

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A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR'Unlike anything I've read. Haunting and huge, and funny and sensuous. It's wonderful' Tessa Hadley'I just enjoyed it so very much' Philip PullmanIt is the 17th century and a wall is being built around a great house. Wychwood is an enclosed world, its ornamental lakes and majestic avenues planned by Mr Norris, landscape-maker. A world where everyone has something to hide after decades of civil war, where dissidents shelter in the forest, lovers linger in secret gardens, and migrants, fleeing the plague, are turned away from the gate.Three centuries later, another wa...