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A Short History of Private Life
A history of domestic life told room by room, from why the dining room exists to what made spice worth dying for.
Bryson walks through his own Norfolk rectory room by room and uses each as a doorway into how domestic life came to be the way it is: why we eat in a dining room, where the bathroom came from, what made salt and spice worth dying for. It is a history of private life told through the objects nobody thinks to ask about.
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