The Thousand Layers of the Kitchen Floor
The kitchen floor of the Royal Caledonian Hotel was made of flagstone, quarried from the same Scottish hills that had produced the stone of the castle and the cathedral. It had been laid in 1823, and in the sixty-five years since, it had absorbed more history than any book in Edinburgh's library. Isabella Crawford had learned to read the floor before she had learned to read the menu. She knew...
0 Commentarios 0 Acciones 3 Views 0 Vista previa