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An enchanted castle, endless summers — the most magical childhood memoir you’ll ever read. A Tuscan Childhood is Kinta Beevor’s lyrical, witty recollection of an idyllic bohemian upbringing in an old castle in Tuscany between the world wars.
Beevor was just five when she fell in love with her parents’ castle, its terraced gardens and olive groves spread below the Carrara mountains. Her father, the painter Aubrey Waterfield, had left the London art world for a life of creativity in the Tuscan hills, and the household drew a colorful circle of artists, writers, and eccentric visitors.
Through a child’s eyes, Beevor recalls a vanished world of sun-warmed stone — where English eccentricity met Italian warmth — written decades later with the double vision of memory: vivid detail of things once lived, seen with an adult’s understanding of what has been lost. Pure pleasure for anyone who has ever dreamed of Italy.
Few childhood memoirs are as enchanting as this one. A Tuscan Childhood is Kinta Beevor’s lyrical and witty recollection of an idyllic, bohemian upbringing in an old castle in Tuscany between the world wars — a childhood spent in what she remembered as an enchanted place.
Beevor was just five years old when she fell in love with her parents’ castle, its terraced gardens and olive groves spread below the Carrara mountains. Her father, the painter Aubrey Waterfield, had left the London art world behind for a life of creativity in the Tuscan hills, and the household that grew up around him drew a colorful circle of artists, writers, and eccentric visitors.
Through a child’s eyes, Beevor recalls a vanished world of sun-warmed stone and endless summers — a place where English eccentricity met Italian warmth, and where every corner of the ancient fortress seemed to hold a story. Written decades later, her memoir carries the double vision of memory: the vivid detail of things once lived, seen with an adult’s understanding of what has been lost.
Part love letter to a lost world, part celebration of an unconventional upbringing, A Tuscan Childhood is pure pleasure for anyone who has ever dreamed of Italy.
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