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Pargeters by norah lofts, 1984, doubleday edition, in english book club ed. And pargeters is the name given to the suffolk home of john mercer in honour of adam woodley, the craftsman who had decorated it so lovingly. The house at sunset is the third in a trilogy of novels by norah lofts about the inhabitants of a country house in suffolk from the late fourteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. Baildon where norah lofts set many of her books is actually bury st edmunds, where she herself lived in a beautiful old house. Norah lofts, nee norah ethel robinson, 27 august 1904 10 september 1983 was a 20thcentury bestselling british author.
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