When author Julia Ibbotson and her husband first saw the old Victorian rectory in dire need of renovation, a mile out of the nearest village in the midst of English moorland, they fell in love with it and the lifestyle it represented, with its kitchen range at its heart. This memoir describes the trials and tribulations of their quest to make their vision come true. They hoped they could make the sad, neglected house glow again and that they could integrate themselves into the small traditional village, with its cottages, hall, and outlying farms. The Old Rectory focuses on the centrality of the kitchen as the pulse of the family and home and shows the importance of food and cooking throughout the changing seasons and moods as the Ibbotsons struggle to live the dream. Advance Praise for The Old Rectory "A delightful read. I urge you to sip a cup of tea and sit by the fireplace. You won't get up until you finish this charming book by Julia Ibbotson. A most talented writer". -Nancy Mills, founder and publisher, The SpiritedWoman.com " . . . In this beautiful tale of love, dreams and hidden gems, Julia includes comforting recipes along with delightful anecdotes that prove that if it is true that home is really where the heart is, then Julia and her husband have found just that in their beloved Victorian rectory". -Vicky DeCoster, author of From Diapers to Dorkville, Husbands, Hot Flushes and All That Hullabaloo, and The Wacky World of Womanhood

The Old Rectory: Escape to a Country Kitchen

Biographies & Memoirs

Ibbotson, Julia

Memoirs

iUniverse, Inc.

Walking in the Rain (Drumbeats)

Romance

Contemporary

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

<p>Drumbeats is the first novel in a trilogy. It is 1965 and the air is light with the idea of freedom, love and the Beatles, but eighteen year old Jess is feeling stifled by her puritanical religious family background in working class England, her mother's narrow-minded Rulebook and rigid plans for her life, and her silent, strangely disturbing father. A feisty young woman with ideas of her own, she plans to defer her university study and instead escape her past to flee to Ghana, West Africa, for a gap year, teaching and nursing in the bush, much to the horror of her parents. In the 60s, Africa means darkness and danger to most people, not least her Quaker family, but to Jess it conjures up a picture of exotic adventure and freedom. Little does she realise what this year will, in fact, bring: joys, horrors, love and tragedy. She must find her way on her own and learn what fate has in store for her, as she becomes embroiled in the poverty and turmoil of the small war-torn African nation under a controversial dictatorship. Jess must face the dangers of both civil war and unexpected romance. But can she escape her troubled past? And why do the drumbeats haunt her dreams?</p>

Drumbeats (The Drumbeats Trilogy)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Independently published

The Dragon Tree: A haunting medieval time-slip (Dr DuLac series)

Archbury Books

The Rune Stone: A haunting time-slip mystery of ancient runes (Dr DuLac series)

Finding Jess (The Drumbeats Trilogy)

Finding Jess

Historical

Goldcrest Books International Ltd

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