Sometimes in Bath: Her Stories and History

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Sometimes in Bath is a tour by story through the history of England's most elegant and intriguing city, beginning with its founding by the legendary King Bladud and then stopping in Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, Georgian, Regency, Victorian and Twentieth Century Bath before arriving in the present day.Alfred the Great, The Wife of Bath, Horatio Nelson, Dr. Johnson, Sally Lunn, Alfred Jingle, Jane Austen's Mr. Bennett, Emperor Haile Selassie and a failing lifestyle salesman called Clive are among the characters encountered, often together. The stories are by turns funny, sad, and a little magical, all touched and shaped by England's oldest resort, a source of happiness, health and rather more for 2000 years. Each story has an afterword separating fact from fiction, adding a wealth of enthralling detail and building a history of the fair city.Sometimes in Bath is a unique book for a unique place, told in the inimitable style with which Charles Nevin has long kept his many newspaper readers entertained.