Celia's House

Name: Celia's House
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: D. E. Stevenson
ISBN: 9781407988597

Author: D. E. Stevenson

Series: Ryddelton #1

Narrator: Lesley Mackie

Unabridged: 9 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Soundings

Published: 01/01/2010

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

In name and by birth, Celia was a Dunne. She had inherited the beautiful old family home by the Rydd Water – but was she bound to live her life by the principles of her predecessors? Was there some hidden restraint that compelled her to heed the past? Celia’s house is a moving and poignant story of the struggle between old and young: the older generation anxious to preserve the values they have helped create while their children are determined at all costs to make lives of their own.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽

Celia's House, written in 1943 by popular Scottish author D.E. Stevenson, is a cozy and charming read, a little old-fashioned, with some lovely moments. Readers who like nostalgic books with some light romance, like The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery, will probably enjoy this book. Also, about half......more

Goodreads review by Melindam

Well, I started off really enjoying this book, as D.E. Stevenson is a trusted comfort-read author for me, but I could not really handle the plot suddenly switching itself into a kind of Mansfield Park retelling (though thankfully, Deb is not as pathologically shy, weak or passive as Fanny Price) all......more