The House That Fell Down

A Diary of Domestic Disaster

Victoria Schofield (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

150 Seiten

2001
John Murray Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7195-6329-4 (ISBN)

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What do you mean it's fallen down? Unfortunately Victoria Schofield's frantic phonecall to her husband was true: their three-storey Victorian house in West London had collapsed, a victim of the underpinning designed to make the house more stable. This is the humorous diary of the disaster.

When Victoria Schofield's three-storey Victorian house in leafy West London collapsed several years ago it made the front page of many newspapers. This witty diary of the ensuing torment of rebuilding, pulling down, and rebuilding again is an eye-opener. No one who reads this wry and often hilarious account is ever likely to say 'safe as houses' again.

Victoria Schofield is married to Stephen Willis, and they and their children live happily in their new house in West London. Apart from her recently acquired expertise in house-building, her specialist interest is South Asia, and she is writing a biography of Earl Wavell. Her previous books include Kashmir in Conflict, Kashmir in the Crossfire and Bhutto: Trial and Execution.

Acknowledgements. Part I, Collapse: 1. 'Kerboom!'; 2. Surveyors, Insurers, Councils and Thieves. Part II, Our Dream House: 3. Going Up; 4. Going Down... and Up Again. Part III, Home At Last: 5. A Roof with a View; 6. The Right White; 7. Countdown

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.10.2001
Sprache	englisch
Maße	145 x 20 mm
Gewicht	327 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Immobilien / Grunderwerb
ISBN-10	0-7195-6329-1 / 0719563291
ISBN-13	978-0-7195-6329-4 / 9780719563294
Zustand	Neuware