Fine Art Special Issue
This week we take a look at some of our best living artists, who in a great British tradition, are inspired by their local countryside, as well as saluting Muirhead Bone, whose work serves as a sobering reminder of the horrors of war
** We visit a Devonshire garden rife with beautiful spring trees
** Luxury News - what to buy and where to stay this spring
** How to light your country house
** Jilly Cooper's favourite things
** Getting the most out of your parsnips
If you missed this issue in the shops you can still buy a back issue online, or order your digital edition of Country Life on your tablet
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Debo Mitford on her childhood at Asthall Manor, from Nancy's 'coming out' dance to Unity's peach-pinching waysThe Dowager Duchess of Devonshire looks back on her childhood in the Cotswold idyll of Asthall Manor.
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A billionaire's thatched cottage is for sale in Surrey, once owned by the oil magnate J. Paul GettyChestnut Cottage is a joyous little home — albeit one with the most unusual bedrooms to acreage to price balances we've ever seen. Toby Keel takes a look inside.
