Tall Chimneys: A British Family Saga Spanning 100 Years - Paperback

by Allie Cresswell (Author)

**Semi-finalist in the Goethe Late Historical Fiction Award.
**Silver medalist in the influential Readers' Favorite competition.
"This is a tour de force of a novel."
"It's been a long time since I read a saga like this. It's one of those books you get so immersed in, when you put it down, you have a hard time remembering what year it is now or where you are."
"When I read the last sentence, I needed a tissue."

Considered a troublesome burden, Evelyn Talbot is banished by her family to their remote country house. Tall Chimneys is hidden in a damp and gloomy hollow. It is outmoded and inconvenient but Evelyn is determined to save it from the fate of so many stately homes at the time - abandonment or demolition. Occasional echoes of tumult in the wider world reach their sequestered backwater - the strident cries of political extremists, a furore of royal scandal, rumblings of the European war machine. But their isolated spot seems largely untouched. At times life is hard - little more than survival. At times it feels enchanted, almost outside of time itself. The woman and the house shore each other up - until love comes calling, threatening to pull them asunder. Her desertion will spell its demise, but saving Tall Chimneys could mean sacrificing her hope for happiness, even sacrificing herself. A century later, a distant relative crosses the globe to find the house of his ancestors. What he finds in the strange depression of the moor could change the course of his life forever. One woman, one house, one hundred years.
Delve deeper into the history of the Talbots and their mysterious house, Tall Chimneys. The saga begins with The House in the Hollow. https: //amzn.eu/d/0dua2yRU

Author Biography

Allie Cresswell was born in Stockport, UK and began writing fiction as soon as she could hold a pencil. She gained a BA in English Literature at Birmingham University and an MA at Queen Mary College, London. She has been a print-buyer, a pub landlady, a book-keeper, run a B & B and a group of boutique holiday cottages. Nowadays Allie writes full time having retired from teaching literature to lifelong learners. She has two grown-up children, one granddaughter and two grandsons, is married to Tim and lives in Cumbria.