A period home with a history

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Lucy Boston (1892-1990), the author of the popular children’s books set at the fictional Green Knowe, was passionate about her home. She described The Manor at Hemingford Grey, a Norman manor house, as being ‘in the highest degree a thing to be loved’ and her love for it was the key to her literary success, inspiring her to recreate it as a home for the magical characters and adventures of The Children of Green Knowe and its many sequels. Twenty years after her death, her spirit lives on in the house: in the vast collection of patchwork quilts she made for its rooms, and the numerous readers making a pilgrimage to the historic site.