The Story of the Minack Chronicles

by Derek Tangye

This volume contains three books that tell of the author's experiences travelling around countries such as America and Russia, as the world was about to be transformed by war, and of life in a Cornish cottage and flower farm. "A Cat in the Window" is a tribute to the author's famous pet.

544 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

During WWII, Derek Tangye worked for MI5 (the U.K.'s domestic counter-intelligence and security agency) and, after the war, he worked as a newspaper columnist. His wife, Jeannie Nicol Tangye, was a hotel PR executive. They both left their jobs in the city to move to a simple cottage on a flower farm in Cornwall.

Reviews

[Laurie]

Anything by Tangye about his life and times in Minack at Cornwall is worth reading, in a way reminiscent of James Herriot's All Creatures series. He's not nearly as keen a writer, but the heart is firmly in place. And oh, all the animals ... and the daffodils ... lovely.

[Deb · Rating 3 out of 5]

As a country girl and self confessed Anglophile I enjoyed this book. Had I ever met this man don't think I would have liked him as his stubborn ego shows through in his writing but at least in the end his wife turned him from a cat hater to a cat lover.

[Colleen · Rating 1 out of 5]

The blurb on the back made me hopeful this would be similar to James Herriot books. Disappointingly the author was sexist and racist and I couldn't even finish reading part 1. I feel like I should give book 2 a try but this may be a write off.