This series follows a family's journey as they transform a house born from tragedy into a home filled with joy. The narrative weaves together elements of gypsy lore, independence, and the struggle to find belonging. It questions whether a past steeped in magic and mystery can coexist with a desire for stability and respectability. The story explores resilience and the intertwining of heritage and identity.
Exploring themes of resilience and the intertwining of heritage and identity, this narrative delves into a family's journey as they transform a house born from tragedy into a home filled with joy. The story weaves together elements of gypsy lore, independence, and the struggle to find belonging, questioning whether a past steeped in magic and mystery can coexist with a desire for stability and respectability.
The doomed love story of Josiana Greenwood and Walter Rancon sets the scene as the destiny of the great Suffolk house known as the Old Vine continues to unfold. Haunted by the stubbornness of its founder, Martin Reed, and the mystical gypsy blood of his wife, their descendants, both innocent and guilty, are caught up in a world of witch-hunts, wars and revolution over two centuries-between the days of Christopher Columbus and the Restoration of Charles II. The House at Old Vine is the second in Norah Lofts' enduringly popular Suffolk Trilogy which began with The Town House and concludes with The House at Sunset. Fans of Norah Lofts' work particularly appreciate how her characters who live around the Suffolk town of Baildon interact with one another between different books. Here, we also learn more of the notorious Hatton family and Merravay, featured in Bless This House, in an enthralling series of stories of believable characters who were prepared to live, to fight, to kill and to die for what they believed.
Traces the lives of the inhabitants of the Old Vine townhouse during its descent into a rural tenement house.