Going It Alone (2012)
“It was not box-like in any way but large and rambling, and with gardens (now sketchily cared for) which would appropriately have gone with a house larger still. Ruth had bought it at the time of the break-up of her marriage, putting much of her available means into it even although she had got it cheap. She had got it cheap because it was built not of any reputable stone or even of brick, but of a local chalk going by the name of clunch: a soft stuff formerly in some esteem for internal decorat...ive purposes in the dwellings of the rich, but now commonly employed for exterior and structural walls only in the hovels of the poor. It was more durable, however, than might have been supposed. What it seemingly couldn’t do was to turn corners, and a fortuitous consequence of this was the patchy use of random supplies of brick or stone at every angle of the building to a surprisingly pleasing effect of the picturesque. Ruth had taken it because, with three disfathered children to think of, she had judged it important to have a dwelling roomy enough for at least the sporadic reception of numerous friends both old and young.MoreLess
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