Mr Mac and Me – Esther Freud
R75.00
Charles Rennie Mackintosh is the ‘Mr Mac’ of the title and this book is about a period of his life during the first world war that he spent on the Suffolk coast.
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Description
Condition: Very Good
304 pages, Paperback
Loosely base on the life of Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
1914. Thomas Maggs is thirteen and lives with his parents and sister at the Blue Anchor pub, in the village of Dunwich on the Suffolk coast. Born in winter while the sea stormed, Thomas is the youngest child, and the only son surviving. In Dunwich, life is quiet and shaped by the seasons: fishing and farming, the summer visitors, and the girls who come down from the Highlands to gut and pack the herring.
Thomas visits his brothers’ grave in the churchyard, sketches the boats from the harbor, and longs for adventure—a chance to go to sea. Then one day a mysterious Scotsman and his red-haired wife arrive in the village. The man’s name is Charles Rennie Mackintosh, but the locals are soon calling him Mac. Mac and his wife are both artists, regarded as eccentrics in town, but a source of wonder and fascination for Thomas.
Yet just as Thomas and Mac’s friendship begins to bloom, war with Germany is declared. The summer guests flee, replaced by regiments of soldiers on their way to Belgium. And as the war weighs increasingly heavily on the community, the villagers on the home front become increasingly suspicious of Mac and his curious behavior.
Additional information
| Weight | 1 kg |
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| Dimensions | 20 × 13 × 2 cm |
