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Restoration Heart is a biography of the heart about an English writer and publisher who suffers a post-divorce, mid-life breakdown and is restored by architecture, love and beauty. It's a story of love, divorce and redemption with an Elizabethan house at its heart: at the start of the memoir his old family house, Upton Cressett, is as much in need of being rescued and 'fixed up' as is its owner.The memoir also holds up a dark lens to the Bonfire of the Vanities generation that Cash was a paid-up member of after leaving Cambridge. It is book-ended with a preface and epilogue set at his fiftieth birthday weekend party when he reflects back on the life scorecard of his greed-is-good Moneyman generation of the 1980s who used Wall Street and Liar's Poker as their graduate career and even 'life' manuals (a theme Cash wrote about in a Sunday Times Magazine article on the 30th anniversary of Bonfire).Drawing on his 'Binder Box' haul of love letters written to various wives, fiancés and girlfriends - all potential third wives and chatelaines of Upton Cressett - the book follows his Boswellian search for a family, including becoming entangled in a major tabloid sex scandal involving a well-known British politician.The book includes encounters with a colourful cast of literary and political figures including Tom Wolfe, Jay McInerney, Margaret Thatcher, Elizabeth Hurley, David Hockney and, most dramatically, Boris Johnson.The memoir reveals how a broken man can become completely transformed - both emotionally and imaginatively - by a building and its surrounding landscape. During the four year refurbishment, the house's reclamation becomes inexorably linked with his own re-birth and salvation before he finally marries for the third time and finally gets to live in his family house with a wife and family.This is not a misery memoir but more like an uplifting, albeit tempestuous, Gulliver-like biography of the heart with an ancient Elizabethan house as the writer's Arcadian safe house and source of salvation.
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- PublisherConstable
- Publication date2019
- ISBN 10 1472132181
- ISBN 13 9781472132185
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages336
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