Seasons at Highclere - Gardening, Growing, Cooking through Year at Real Downton Abbey

Join Lady Carnarvon as she opens the Castle's gates to show how the iconic British landmark celebrates and changes each season. This book reveals the treasures within Highclere Castle's land and estates: Georgian architecture, follies, secret gardens, the monks' garden, wildflower meadows and the woods of enchantment.

About the author

Fiona, 8th Countess of Carnarvon, is the wife of Geordie, 8th Earl of Carnarvon.

She is an alumna of St Andrews University, a former auditor for Coopers & Lybrand accountants and created her own clothes brand in the 1990s. She and her husband and son live 'quietly' with eight dogs, too many horses, a brood of chickens, a number of bee hives and some rare breed pigs, amongst the normal farm animals in the farm and landscape of Highclere Castle today.

Fascinated by the inhabitants of Highclere Castle as well as its past, Lady Carnarvon reveals its history, stories and recipes in Seasons at Highclere, Christmas at Highclere and At Home at Highclere. She is also the author of the New York Times bestsellers Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey and Lady Catherine and the Real Downton Abbey.

Summary

Join Lady Carnarvon as she opens the Castle's gates to show how the iconic British landmark celebrates and changes each season. This book reveals the treasures within Highclere Castle's land and estates: Georgian architecture, follies, secret gardens, the monks' garden, wildflower meadows and the woods of enchantment.

Product details

• Authors: Fiona (Lady Carnarvon, The Countess of Carnarvon, Lady Carnarvon, The Countess of Carnarvon
• Publisher: Century Hutchinson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.09.2021
• EAN: 9781529135589
• ISBN: 978-1-5291-3558-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 199 mm x 254 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Food & drink > Theme cookery books; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Hampshire, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / General, GARDENING / Vegetables, Local History, Gardens (descriptions, history etc), Biography and non-fiction prose, TV / celebrity chef cookbooks, Architecture: palaces, stately homes and mansions, Cookery / food by ingredient: fruit and vegetables, Gardening: fruit and vegetable