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Having started late, he worked fast, writing 4,000 words a day under the thatched roof of his converted coach house in Devon. The books poured out-sturdy, spacious narratives teeming with secondary characters, subplots, detailed social background and satisfying verdant county settings. Too long, too oldfashioned, too English, thought American publishers. But then in 1964 A Horseman Riding By, the first of Delderfield's Devonshire family sagas, sold an impressive 20,000 copies in the U.S. By 1970 the Delderfield blend of history, sentiment and foursquare storytelling could make God Is an Englishman a runaway U.S. bestseller...
...back of a cellar, an act whose authenticity she patronizes and flaunts in The Bell Jar (1971). Her two later attempts wind down with less conviction, but sadly, with greater efficacy. While she was still living with her husband. Ted Hughes, and her two children in Devon, England, she drove off the road, on purpose...
...vanishing into walls. Yet there is enough sheer horror to send chills through the stoutest cynic. One example is a thoroughly detailed struggle with a "malevolent thing"-endured in the early '20s by Author Beverley Nichols and his friend Lord St. Audries in a dilapidated house in Torquay, Devon. Underwood also deals at length with the carefully analyzed spookery at Borley Rectory, Essex. Before the house was destroyed in an appropriately mysterious 1939 fire, several researchers who spent many days and nights investigating the strange goings-on at the rectory reported unexplainable experiences involving figures, voices, messages, poltergeists...
...Colleen. They remarried on July 4, 1967. "Independence Day," she says now. "It seemed only right and fitting." They live in tentative tranquillity in a rambling farmhouse in South Salem, N.Y., with their sons, Alexander, 10, and Campbell, 9. The children of Scott's second marriage, Matthew, 13, and Devon, 12, visit frequently, attracted in part by a burgeoning menagerie of four German shepherds, two ponies, 20 chickens, two cats, three doves and a swimming-pool bullfrog named Charlie. At the farm, Scott plays chess, bridge and golf with neighbors. His wife, a strong, warm woman, is, in the phrase...
...Scottish Lowlanders employing litigation as a modern substitute for clan feuds, Welshmen thinking more about "minstrels, ash trees and scansion" than anything else, Cornish gypsies habitually "poovin' the grays" (pasturing their horses at night in somebody else's field). At the Hare and Hounds in Chip-shop, Devon, the customers like to sing hymns while they drink, and one night, they moved over to the church and helped out the choir. "A good time was had by all," the pub keeper told Hillaby, "including, I imagine, the Lord." After so much local color, the author was only mildly...