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I started reading this book for the Cornwall setting and wasn't disappointed with the major part the setting played. The historical aspect of the actual flood that occurred in Boscastle, the descriptions of the countryside, and the characters' relationships to the setting created a dominant (in a good way) character out of the setting itself. Two elements I most enjoy about a book are the historical aspects of a story and the setting coming alive, so this book definitely fulfilled both of those
First I loved the title; next I loved the cover art; most importantly, I loved the story and the characters and the setting. This was published in 2009 so I'm not sure how I missed such a great book. Andrew Stratton is a professor of architecture who's never built a building. He goes to a small town in England to learn stone hedging (stone wall building) to reconect to the land after his wife leaves him for another man. He meets Nicola Rhys-Jones, an artist still recovering from an abusive relat...
Hard to believe that the author did not live through the flood in Boscastle himself. After reading the sample I just had to buy and carry on reading. The characters all came alive and I was almost holding my breath until I knew how they had fared through that day. Remembering watching on television, almost disbelieving our eyes at the time, this tale by Will North brought it all back. I will certainly read more by this author.
Compare to "Bartelby the Scribner" by Hermen Melville.Walls in our lives.Small town life in England.Flashfloods.Reality.People caring for people.Witches and Witchcraft, lovers of Mother Earth and Healers?.Love between Man and woman, animals, and young children.Room for all faiths to abide together.Assiting one another in need.I like Will North's way of writing looking forward to reading more of his works.
At first I wasn't too sure about this book, but as I read on, I really enjoyed it. It is a love story but much more than that.
Review: Water, Stone, Heart by Will North. 3* 04/29/2020North has written another amazing story about the gradual bonding of two damaged souls who find respite in each other. The setting of the story starts in Philadelphia where Andrew Stratton finds himself divorced and heartbroken. Not long after he decides to travel to a small village in Boscastle, England for a week long course about architectural theories. North has also included a few eccentric characters which enhance the story further. A...
Escaping from the tedium of his life, the protagonist of Water, Stone, Heart, Andrew Stratton, a newly divorced architecture professor from Philadelphia, journeys to the remote village of Boscastle in Cornwall, England to learn how to build stone and turf walls. There Andrew falls in love with Nicola, a beautiful artist who suffers from a secret, tragic past, and is befriended by a variety of quirky characters including a precocious nine-year-old who communes with nature, a wizened old stonemas
Met the author's partner last year at Morning Beach near our condo in Washington and wanted to read the story after her description. While I am not a big romantic novel fan, I did appreciate the descriptions of Boscastle, in Cornwall, England (sounds gorgeous!) and the historical references to the great flood that apparently devastated some of the region in 2006. Also enjoyed the the descriptions of building stone walls -- or as the Brits call them, "hedges," and references to architecture, musi...
This is a story set in England around a village that has many colorful characters in the book. It brings a delightful little girl, a university professor, an artist who has been abused into the mix in a wonderful way. The village suffers a unbelieveable natural devastation that is based on a true occurrance. (There is a video on YouTube about the disaster.)
A trip to Cornwall changes a teachers life for the better.
I enjoyed this a lot more than I expected to. More descriptive writing than I normally enjoy but wasn't overly wordy. I enjoyed the characters also. Good quick read.
very interesting read and way more story line that I originally thought
When I started reading Trevega House, #3 in the Davies & West series, the forward said that North had brought back some of the characters from this book. So I decided to read this one first. It is not part of the Davies & West series.This story is based on a true happening - the Boscastle, Cornwall flood of August 2004, caused by an unusual downpour of rain. The story incorporates entries from the Boscastle Flood Special Issue of the Journal of Meteorology.The book is absolutely engrossing. All
