Nora Lofts won an American Booksellers Association award for her first work, I Met a Gypsy(1935), andĪ Georgette Heyer Award for The Day of the Butterfly (1979). It begins with the story of Martin Reed, a serf existing under the. Lofts also published several thrillers under the pseudonym Peter Curtis and the pseudonym Juliet Astley. The Town House is the first in a trilogy of novels by Norah Lofts about the inhabitants of a country house in Suffolk from the late fourteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. Tells the story of the fortunes of a beautiful Elizabethan house in Suffolk in eight episodes, each narratedīy a different character who plays a part in its history. : The Town House (Suffolk Trilogy) (9781905806737) by Lofts, Norah and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. The House at Old Vine, and The House at Sunset) spans 600 years in the history of a house,įrom its beginnings as the home of a medieval wool-merchant to the present day, and Bless This House

Occupants lack, although the occupants may leave impressions. Both landscape and houses have a permanency which their Many of her historical romances are set in Suffolk,Įngland and many of them are set around houses. Lofts novels have a strong sense of time and place. Her novels are well known not only for their historicalĪccuracy, but for her vigorous style of storytelling and her sense of history and her capacity to transmit In the nineteenth century or had English history as backgrounds, though other nations and eras-includingīiblical times-were represented in her writings. She was best known for her historical novels, many of which were set Norah Lofts Norah Robinson Lofts (1904 - 1983) (aka Juliet Astley and Peter Curtis) Norah Lofts was a prolific British author who wrote not only historical romances for over 50 years,īut also nonfiction and biographies.

The Town House by Norah Lofts