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Mr Mac and Me by Esther Freud (Paperback, 2015)
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Thomas Maggs, the son of the local publican, lives with his parents and sister in a village on the Suffolk coast in 1914. He is the youngest child, and the only son surviving. Life is quiet - shaped by the seasons, fishing and farming and the summer visitors. Then one day a mysterious Scotsman arrives. To Thomas he looks for all the world like a detective, in his black cape and hat of felted wool, and the way he puffs on his pipe as if he's Sherlock Holmes. Mac is what the locals call him when they whisper about him in the inn. And whisper they do, for he sets off on his walks at unlikely hours, and stops to examine the humblest flowers. He is seen on the beach, staring out across the waves as if he's searching for clues. But Mac isn't a detective, he's the architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh, and together with his red-haired artist wife, they soon become a source of fascination and wonder to Thomas. Yet just as Thomas and Mac's friendship begins to blossom, war with Germany is declared. The summer guests flee and are replaced by regiments of soldiers on their way to Belgium, and as the brutality of war weighs increasingly heavily on this coastal community, they become more suspicious of Mac and his curious behaviour... In this tender and compelling story of an unlikely friendship, Esther Freud paints a vivid portrait of a home front community during the First World War, and of a man who was one of the most brilliant and misunderstood artists of his generation.Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-139781408857212
eBay Product ID (ePID)213108746
Product Key Features
Book TitleMr Mac and Me
AuthorEsther Freud
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicBooks
Publication Year2015
Number of Pages304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height198mm
Item Width129mm
Item Weight216g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorEsther Freud
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 29 Aug, 2018
A beautiful evocation of war time on the south coast intertwined with a well researched descriptiveportrait of CRMackintosh in his declining years.
A gentle atmospheric book with a well observed characterisaton of Charles Rennie Mackintosh in his later years in a time of austerity during the first world war. ...made all the more poignant as his masterpiece, the GSA where I studied for four years has just burnt down for the second time.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 18 Feb, 2021
A great author
I am looking forrward to reading it during lockfown.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 27 Jan, 2018
A fascinating tale
If interested in East Anglia, this Warbleswick story at the time of WW1 is an absorbing story of the area at that time.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 17 Mar, 2020
Have read better
Bought this because I’m a volunteer tour guide at MacIntosh’s Hill House.never really got going. Was no wiser about MacIntosh when I’d finished itVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
