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About the Book
The Honeywood Settlement is the sequel to The Honeywood File, the richly comic classic first published in England in the 1920s and published by Academy in 2000. The Honeywood Settlement, like The Honeywood File, is an epistolary novel and deals with the painful aftermath of clearing up the defects in the building of Sir Leslie Brash’s large country house and his haggling over the bill. The cast of characters are the same: Sir Leslie Brash, the client, and his “good lady”; James Spinlove, the architect, and a host of builders, contractors and sub-contractors, such as Nibnose and Rasper; Reaker and Smith; Beddy and Tinge; as well as a variety of solicitors.
Architectural Historian Alexandrina Buchanan, who reviewed The Honeywood File for the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) bookshops in England said “. . . for anyone in search of an exhaustive, yet humorous, insight into the everyday reality of architectural practice in the early twentieth century, this book will prove a delight.”
“. . . recommended to the earnest study of all young architects and all those temerarious enough to desire to build their own houses.”—The Burlington Magazine
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