About the Author

William Cash is the author of a Hollywood memoir and a biography of Graham Greene, The Third Woman. He writes for the Sunday Times Magazine, Telegraph Magazine and New Statesman. He is a two-time winner of Editor of the Year at the PPA awards and is chairman of the Catholic Herald.

Reviews

Breathtaking untold story . . . riotously colourful
*Mail on Sunday*

A touching, entertaining memoir which traces the twin track restoration of a broken heart and dilapidated Shropshire Manor
*The Tablet*

Immensely readable . . . Laugh-out-loud funny, Restoration Heart is a delightful true story of love, hope and redemption by one of the foremost society writers of our day
*Tatler*

An excellent memoir
*Nicholas Coleridge*

This entertaining, often poignant, book is straight out of Waugh or Wodehouse
*Catholic Herald*

An endearing story of rebuilding and restoring
*You magazine*

A funny and unexpectedly touching book
*Country Life*

I read most of it in one exciting sitting. It's brilliant, gripping and sad. The personal romantic memoir is terrific

Hilarious . . . Restoration Heart conveys the transformative power of good architecture . . . this book is one to be treasured
*The New Criterion*

Recommended . . . unexpected poignancy
*New Statesman*

A very amusing and candid memoir
*Jeremy Musson, architectural historian and broadcaster*

I'm very much enjoying Restoration Heart
*John Challis, aka Boyce in Only Fools and Horses and restore-a-wreck author*

Cash emerges as a flamboyant character . . . a classically English romantic . . . Cash's transition is genuinely endearing
*The Art Newspaper*

Recommended
*Historic House*

Intriguing . . . wittily recounted and moving . . . This book will surely give heart to anyone embarking on a seemingly Sisyphean restoration job, be it of the house or of the soul
*The Lady*

Cash, who has often written of society and scandal, is adept at setting dramatic scenes throughout his memoir. Yet there's another layer to Restoration Heart-an acute literary sense . . . Restoration Heart is buoyed by Cash's self-effacing humor. He's a romantic when it comes to love, and also writing
*The Millions*