- Published: 5 April 2012
- ISBN: 9781409027737
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 288
Cheek by Jowl
A History of Neighbours
- Published: 5 April 2012
- ISBN: 9781409027737
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 288
A brisk but impressively comprehensive survey.
Reader's Digest
A fine book packed with generosity, rivalry, misbehaviour, snobbery, love, murder and politics.
Alistair Mabbott, The Herald
A great insight into how our homes and communities have grown and changed.
Kate Whiting, PA syndicated review - Manchester Evening News
A great read
Penelope Lively, Spectator
A lively study of neighbourly relations.
Philippa Stockley, Sunday Telegraph
A very detailed historical survey of the upside and the downside of neighbouring since about 1300.
Peter Lewis, Daily Mail
An entirely delightful history of neighbour relations since the Middle Ages
Rupert Uloth, Country Life
I enjoyed Cockayne's book immediately
Rebecca Armstrong, Independent
Informative but fun, with an important message about society, Cockayne’s history is a human one, with all the heartache and joy that entails
Lesley McDowell, Independent on Sunday
Intelligent, instructive and brightly funny
Iain Finlayson, The Times
Original, humorously historical and wittily anecdotal.
Saga Magazine
Relishable
Independent
The avowed aim of this fascinating history of neighbours is to explore the delicate balance between people’s determination to protect their privacy and their simultaneous wish to cultivate contact with those who live close by
Good Book Guide
This curtain-twitching account is bottom-up history at its breezy best
Michael Kerrigan, Scotsman
This intriguing social history charts the concept of neighbours through British history in thorough detail
Big Issue in the North
This lively social history documents nine centuries of disputes, noise levels, wartime camaraderie and carparking issues. Fascinating
The Lady
Vivid and absorbing...like all good history, it leaves the reader wanting to know more
Peter Wilby, New Statesman