A Home for All Seasons

Charming - a love-letter to home, history, and nature.

'Leah Broad, Author of Quartet'

A tender and illuminating history of an overlooked world.

'Horatio Clare'

Truly a revelation on every page.

'Petroc Trelawny'

A richly textured book, replete with illuminating discoveries and observations.

'Country Life'

A wide-ranging meditation on place and past.

'Literary Review'

Gavin considered himself an urban being... until he met his husband, Alastair. Together, they bought Stepps House in Pembridge, Herefordshire - on love at first sight. But then came the question: 'How old is it?' With its ancient beams, the date they'd been given seemed out by centuries.

As Gavin traced Stepps House through various hands and eras, he saw a past emerge that resonates powerfully with our present. Mixing history and art, memoir and landscape, A Home for All Seasons is grand in its sweep and intimate in its account of rural life.