The Nearest Way Home.

Fielding, Daphne.

ISBN 10: 041327490X / ISBN 13: 9780413274908

Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1970

About this Item

x, 275pp, index, bw ills. Yellow cloth in jacket. 1cm tear at top left front of jacket, slight fading to spine. The author and her husband's search for the perfect home for them and their ever increasing number of pets and friends. Their quest begins in Cornwall, moves to Morocco and then to Portugal. Includes many meetings and frienships with literary luminaries including Lawrence Durrell, Emlyn Williams, Evelyn Waugh and Henry Miller. Size: 8vo.

Seller Inventory # 049405

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Nearest Way Home.
• Publisher: Eyre & Spottiswoode, London
• Publication Date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 041327490X
• ISBN 13: 9780413274908
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography
  • Literature & Poetry

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Synopsis

Daphne Fielding describes the changing landscape of her life with intense gusto and infectious enjoyment. A recurring theme through the story is the Fielding "menagerie" which includes Pekingese dogs, owls, hedgehogs, a donkey, a chameleon, a parrot who swears in three languages, and a budgerigar whose favorite utterance is "Dirty Bugger Daph". A cat enters their lives 'his eyes twin orbs of chrysoprase flecked with yellow lichen' . . . They save a pigeon from the stew-pot, give it the run of the house and it learns to fly around with sprigs of olive branch in his beak. The Nearest Way Home will delight all of her many readers!