6/27/2023 0 Comments Restoration London by Liza Picard![]() ![]() Liza Picard is looking at her period from a clear 20th-century perspective. I would not like to have crossed accounts with her when she was with the Inland Revenue.Īll this gives the book a contemporary freshness. You want laundry methods? You want hospital waiting lists? Mirror glass? Planning regulations? Juries? Public transport? Lavatory systems? Parks? Pornography? Making a will? Cooking a pike? Ms Picard passes on none. There is almost no aspect of life in Restoration London that is not meticulously described in these 300-odd pages. She has never written a book before, but what she lacks in experience she certainly makes up for in enthusiasm and virtuoso knowledge. Ms Picard is a 69-year-old barrister who worked for years in the office of the Solicitor of the Inland Revenue. Put the three together, and you may have some idea of Liza Picard's Restoration London. ![]() Imagine a civil servant, Grade 5, mugging up on the period after the Great Fire for Mastermind. Imagine P D James deciding to set a thriller in the time of Charles II and assembling her background materials. Imagine Samuel Pepys re-incarnated as a 20th-century woman lawyer, and looking back at 17th-century London not as a diarist but as a social analyst. ![]()
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