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The Pinecone is set in the village of Wreay, near Carlisle, where a masterpiece in Victorian architecture stands - the strangest and most magical church in England. This vivid, original book tells the story of its builder, Sarah Losh, strong-willed and passionate, an architect and an intellectual who dumbfounded critics with her genius and originality. Born into an old Cumbrian family, heiress to an industrial fortune, Sarah combined a zest for progress with a love of the past. The church is Losh's masterpiece, richly decorated with symbolic carvings there are images of ammonites, scarabs and poppies, and everywhere there are pinecones, her signature in stone. The church is a dramatic rendering of the power of myth and the great natural cycles of life and death and rebirth.
The Pinecone is also the story of Sarah's radical family, friends of Wordsworth and Coleridge; of the love between sisters and the life of a village; of the struggle of the weavers, the coming of the railways, the findings of geology and the fate of a young northern soldier in the Afghan war. Above all, though, it is about the joy of making and the skill of local, unsung craftsmen.
Award-winning Jenny Uglow (author of The Lunar Men, Nature's Engraver and In These Times) crafts this moving story of a beautiful and ornate church, a pioneering and imaginative woman, and the changing life of a small northern village in the face of the Industrial Revolution.
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Clearly focussed, wonderfully stimulating and surprisingly colourful. (Andrew Lycett Sunday Telegraph)
Uglow has produced a quiet masterpiece: a book to savour and treasure. (Miranda Seymour Sunday Times)
I don't know another book that feels quite like this one. (A. S. Byatt New Statesman Books of the Year)
It is a riveting story and Jenny Uglow makes the most of it. (John Martin Robinson The Spectator)
Jenny Uglow proves not only the importance of Sarah Losh, but shows what biography at its very best can do. (Frances Wilson Literary Review)
An exuberant match for the beautiful, ornate and movingly personal nature of Losh's extraordinary church. (Rachel Hewitt The Guardian)
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In The Pinecone, Jenny Uglow, the award-winning author of In These Times and The Lunar Men, explores the love, life and craftsmanship of Sarah Losh and brings to life an extraordinary Romantic heroine, a region and an age.
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- PublisherFaber & Faber
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 0571269516
- ISBN 13 9780571269518
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages368
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